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How hard could it be? (lemmy.world)

submitted 19 hours ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 18 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Fun quote from an interview with Chris Sawyer:

Latterly the machine code came back to haunt us when the decision was made to re-launch the original game on mobile platforms as RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic a few years ago, and it took several years and a small team of programmers to re-write the entire game in C++. It actually took a lot longer to re-write the game in C++ than it took me to write the original machine code version 20 years earlier.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Well worth it. The mobile version is amazing, that is to say, almost exactly the same as the original.

[–] mynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Further proof C++ is a pita

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 minutes ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

#include <iostream> // because writing to the console is not included by default.
int main()
{
std::cout << "C++ is simple and fun ... you cretin";
return 0;
}

I had a machine language course in uni, parallel with a C++ course. Not a fun semester to be my wife, or a relative of any of my classmates. Best case our brains were in C++ mode, worst case you needed an assembler to understand us.

And yes I know my code format will piss people off, I don't care, it's the way I write when other less informed people don't force me to conform to their BS "Teh oPeNiNg bracket shouwd bwee on teh sam line ass teh declawation"