Ask HN: How were video games from the 90s so efficient?

• VoxelSpace

  21 5,794 0.0 C

  Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code

• Medo

  12 143 4.5 C++

  Haiku Media Editor

I’ve created a 4k UHD video editor for Haiku OS (https://github.com/smallstepforman/Medo), it’s a C++17 native app, with over 30 OpenGL GLSL effect plugins and addons, multi threaded Actor model, over 10 user languages, and the entire package file fits on a 1.44Mb floppy disk with space to spare. If I was really concerned about space, I could probably replace all .png resources with WebP and save another 200kb.

How is it so small? No external dependancies (uses stock Haiku packages), uses the standard C++ system API, and written by a developer that learned their trade on restrained systems from the 80’s. Look at the old Amiga stuff from that era.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• Descent-2

  3 21 10.0

  The Descent 2 source code.

  

• abrash-black-book

  23 4,413 0.0 CSS

  Markdown source for Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book

https://github.com/jagregory/abrash-black-book

As CPU power, the number of cores, RAM sizes, HDD sizes, graphics card capabilities have increased, the developers are no longer as careful to squeeze out the performance.

• micro-editor

  228 24,148 9.3 Go

  A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

• SaaSHub

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