@mint@japananon Also programming was lower level, at least with computers with DOS/BASIC/similar OSes you were very low to the hardware level as opposed to UNIX or Windows NT. This was even more important with consoles.
Case in point; one chiptune composer talking about how a pinball machine was programmed by syncing up sound and audio on lowly m6809 hardware and talking about a lost art when FM Synthesis died off; making a soundtrack never "skip" a note and being completely dynamic. Essentially when something like the ball drain would happen the game would switch soundtracks (and the iMUSE system in Dark Forces did something similar).
@mint@japananon It's funny because someone I know did digging on graphic art programs used by 90s computer artists in Japan, and one trend he found is that a lot of artists back then were actually also computer nerds and/or programmers. I'm talking, "writing a program to use a Wacom on your PC-98 in DOS" inclined.
Why? Look at TikTok, it got popular because a few years before, there a very similar app called "Vine" that got bought and killed by Twitter. It was so big for a while that in between Vine's death and the rise of TikTok "vine compilation" videos were big on YouTube.
There is a huge void because art sites are fucking dead and nobody wants to launch a new one because the userbase would be too neurotic. Fedi solves this. image.png
It's only nowadays that people use the web as an escape, for many people iexplore.exe was a game. The internet was only an escape if your life was completely broken irl and that's why the extremely online types are the way they are.
@mint@get Josh had the same shit happen when he tried to run 9chan as well but even when he filtered that out (he had access to the cuckflare database before the war with brick face happened), what made him offload it was when some fedposter made a threat towards Israel leading to the fbi contacting him.
@shadowferret this is one of the things that killed the pcem project too aside from the dev having a mental episode online. The developer was from the same demographic and also refused to use commits from 86box because of an old feud.
Instead the dev wasted time reimplementing whatever 86box added out of spite.