Murray, remember my old luggable Amstrad PPC640? With a whole 640KB of memory, two 720kb drives and a 2400baud modem? I optimised the way that thing loaded stuff into memory and its performance (faster video BIOS replacer programs and memory timing tweakers...) until it creaked.

And you're talking about Andrew's C64, aren't you?

*laughs* Those were the days...

I heard an interesting opinion that kids these days don't know about debugging and problem solving the way we used to. When all you have to do to get a playstation working is throw in the CD, what would they know of the tricks of debugging cable connections, floppy disk firmware and memory usage? Or POKEs to run cheats on games...

They don't know what they're missing ... eh, altman?

Save the whales. Feed the hungry. Free the mallocs.