Ha, yes I always have fond memories of the days when people wrote a serviceable chess program in 1KB which you typed in from a magazine [1] and I compare that to nowadays when I can have a Firefox Tab using 1GB+.
Also some of the optimisations (The Hobbit on the BBC micro actually using screen memory to load the game) and "friendly rivalry" between developers and copiers (I remember trying to Hack Frak! on the BBC micro and it detecting this and playing the Jolly Roger).
Also some of the optimisations (The Hobbit on the BBC micro actually using screen memory to load the game) and "friendly rivalry" between developers and copiers (I remember trying to Hack Frak! on the BBC micro and it detecting this and playing the Jolly Roger).
[1] http://users.ox.ac.uk/~uzdm0006/scans/1kchess/