talking about small and lean,
ok so demo coders have got lazy with direct access to openGL / D3D API's, but have you seen what they can do with 64k demos these days! a mate of mine showed me some demos he had from 2001... 64k, 48k etc etc. these things ran for like 10 minutes! all textures, models, scenes, are mathamatical structures, and so easily compressed/decompressed with big hardware. the demo coders are still able to push the envelope, just they have much or leeway it what they can do. (still need the limiting factor of 64k tho ;-) )
was well impressed.
also speaking about the hardware situation, i was going to put bids in on an A1200 PPC card and GFX card on e-bay, but i ended up going to a computer fair and buying an Athlon 3200XP, Nforce2 Mainboard, and a gig of ram for under 300 pounds. you pays your money, you takes your choice.. would still like a PPC card tho.
but as for the passion... i hear yah there. if something happened to said PC, i wouldn't care. i don't really care about it now to be honest, but my A1200? knock at your own risk! :-D
