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Buffalox@lemmy.world 6 days agoBasically everybody making a game for Amiga made the equivalent of their own graphics drivers. Programming direct to the specialized hardware.
That way of programming apps is completely obsolete today. Now it’s all about abstraction layers. And for a guy like me, it feels like I lost control.
If you want to program “old school” you have to play with things like Arduino.
I’m a relic now, that’s just how it is.
Valmond@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Time to program the ESP8266 :-)
Buffalox@lemmy.world 5 days ago
My wife actually used that for something she needed to be able to remote control a few years back. She tells me it an amazing chip. 😀
Valmond@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Wow cool!
Yes it’s one of the most cheapest and amazing chips but also not very known about, or so I feel.
I made a little webserver on it that polled a site I had, so that I could switch (ok, only a led but still) on and off both from the esp and the website. Quite capable little chip.