Back when Vladimir Putin launched his aggressive war on Ukraine, even before western government sanctions began rolling out, the video game industry started its own mini warfront on Russia. Compani…
The story is way more interesting. Cannot dig the article, but dropping soviet originated hardware had to do also with programming languages. Western entities started with heavy lobbing, often dressed as grass root movement, for languages that for western based systems.
Not sure how well supported this thesis was, but it was interesting that preferences of engineers got used for market absorption.
Not a new thing by today’s standards.
Didn’t the NES produce non-square pixels? Like pure data wise the screen was square but at some point in making it NTSC it gets stretched horizontally to 4:3?
Russia has own computers on own processors produced on Micron(not to be confused with Micron Technology). But they are expensive as cast iron bridge and hard to get.
At one point in time Russia actually had their own computer system back in the '80s. So I guess just dust that off?
It died because it had non-square pixels, because that’s not stupid, and so was a pain to develop any games for.
The Atari 2600 and Commodore 64 did okay for themselves with non-square pixels.
The story is way more interesting. Cannot dig the article, but dropping soviet originated hardware had to do also with programming languages. Western entities started with heavy lobbing, often dressed as grass root movement, for languages that for western based systems. Not sure how well supported this thesis was, but it was interesting that preferences of engineers got used for market absorption.
Not a new thing by today’s standards.
I’m pretty sure there is an English language compiler for it now, but I don’t know when that became available.
Didn’t the NES produce non-square pixels? Like pure data wise the screen was square but at some point in making it NTSC it gets stretched horizontally to 4:3?
Russia has own computers on own processors produced on Micron(not to be confused with Micron Technology). But they are expensive as cast iron bridge and hard to get.
“Expensive as a cast iron bridge” is a great saying. Is that something I’ve just never heard before, or did you coin the phrase?
This is well known phrase in russian. “Стоит как чугунный мост” literally means “costs like cast iron bridge”.
I love it. There’s so much depth there.
Yea it caught my eye too, pretty cool
What are they I doubt they’ll be even 10 nanometer
65 as I remember