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Programmers were using cooperative threading for decades before Go made the concept popular with the web crowd.

You're right, decades of experience are also very important (though there are youngsters starting on platforms like the NES or TI graphing calculators doing cool stuff as well). I'…

Official NES mappers allowed up to 1 megabyte of ROM (512kb program ROM, 512kb graphics ROM). I can't really imagine needing more than that for an NES game. Yes, theoretically you …

In Battletoads, Rare went a step further and kept only a single frame for each player loaded in CHR RAM, copying over it for each frame of animation. As for mappers, the 6502 (alon…

I don't think fancy algorithms and data structures are common or particularly useful in retrocomputing. I think it's primarily because programs were written back then under strict …