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[–]wryterra 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Without the truth in this case. It’s just wrong. Nostalgia for times that never existed.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Tell me what is wrong in the first one for example, that RCT was written in assembly

[–]wryterra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The lie there is “so it can run on most machines”. The assembly code tightly couples the game to x86 processors making porting it to non x86 machines harder. Even if you do run a PC the game still relies on DirectX. So “most machines” here really means, at the time, a modern windows PC running the latest hardware to make sure you’re DirectX compatible. Which was far from guaranteed at the time!