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Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 6 months ago by SeaJ@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

This is very similar to something we did in engineering school in like 2008. For a reconfigurable computing project we translated machine code into HDL.

This is something you could have done for a while if you had a few million dollars to pay a team of computer engineers to do it. The new part is the classic "some dude figured out an efficient way to do it in his garage over the summer."

[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

can be done as a school project

needs a few million dollars

which is it?

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yes

The cost of hiring a team of programmers the size of a large class can easily cost millions of dollars. There's a long history of school projects accomplishing things in computer science that would have cost millions. Look at BSD for example.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

unironically all you really need is one or two neurospicy individuals that are passionate about your project and just about anything can be done in a matter of weeks.

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You could say that about basically anything: it only takes one or two passionate people to [write a great novel, build a house, invent something new, prove a scientific theory, advance the field of mathematics] in a matter of weeks.

Those are rare and impressive exceptions, it's not so simple in practice. The Mythical Man Month has some good insight on this. Big projects cost big money, and don't necessarily get the job done faster.