Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io
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I've once had a project like this and it was pure frustrating pain. mastodon.gamedev.place/@djlink

@MrDavehathaway 7 years ago Hello, | was the lead programmer of the Toy Story PC version and | wanted to say a few things. First, thanks for the video, it brings back memories. Some good, some bad. Now, would like to address some of the overly harsh criticism people are posting. ‘The Mega Drive (Genesis) and also the SNES were written in the assembly language for their specific machines (as all console games were at the time). “This was written in C with a lot of x86 (PC) assembly language. The source code was not available to me, Travelers owned the code and Disney didn't want to pay $$$6 for using it as a reference. 1 literally had to sit and play the game over and over and ‘ry’ to mimic the behavior of the game. ‘Also, this had to run on a 486DX 33 MHZ processor. Earthworm Jim that was mentioned in a comment below required a minimum of a Pentium 133 with a 3D card (and was DOS based). In raw power, that's over 4 time faster. Please do some fact checking before you compare products that have completely different target specs! “The 3D effects were in at one point but had to be taken out because of the limited horsepower of the target CPU, too much slowdown. Everything had to be done in software, no nice hardware blitters or DMA chips for PCs! This had to run on both Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, a double nightmare! | wish it had been DOS because it would have made things easier and it ‘would probably still run (with DOSBox). (rest of text was removed due to ALT limitations)

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Attached: 1 image wow, the PC port of Toy Story was done by one programmer who was not given the source code and only the SNES graphics. He had to play the game over and over to replicate it by observation. https://bsky.app/profile/mayoraponte.bsky.social/post/3ltnt2ksl7s2f #gamedev

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