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6/23/2025, 7:28:24 AM
>>11818421
The kid or his professor is bullshitting, anyone could publish basically anything on a home computer, the only thing stopping you is logistics and then things which would just be illegal to publish in general.
You can see this in how all the popular home computers in the 90s and 80s had oceans and oceans of indie and small publisher software and games.
There's even things mostly or completely lost to time, just because they had such poor success in the market and then nobody saved anything of it. The vast majority of all such lost content is not missed by anyone either (because it remains obscure), which is how society and the creative process goes.
>>11818438
Yeah, it would be logistically impossible to keep a tight control on such open systems with such widespread reach. Someone will just make something running on your hardware and OS, and you can't really do anything about it or demand anything from them, you're not even going to be aware of the majority of products and projects.
Consoles can do that because they're restricted systems with control, which don't really allow for any development on the user end at all, rather a game developer will have a special development kit lent to them for work.
There were really shitty porn games for Commodore 64 computers and early DOS, not because that's what Commodore or Microsoft really wanted, or really that it's what many people wanted at all, but because you could just do it, and someone did.
The kid or his professor is bullshitting, anyone could publish basically anything on a home computer, the only thing stopping you is logistics and then things which would just be illegal to publish in general.
You can see this in how all the popular home computers in the 90s and 80s had oceans and oceans of indie and small publisher software and games.
There's even things mostly or completely lost to time, just because they had such poor success in the market and then nobody saved anything of it. The vast majority of all such lost content is not missed by anyone either (because it remains obscure), which is how society and the creative process goes.
>>11818438
Yeah, it would be logistically impossible to keep a tight control on such open systems with such widespread reach. Someone will just make something running on your hardware and OS, and you can't really do anything about it or demand anything from them, you're not even going to be aware of the majority of products and projects.
Consoles can do that because they're restricted systems with control, which don't really allow for any development on the user end at all, rather a game developer will have a special development kit lent to them for work.
There were really shitty porn games for Commodore 64 computers and early DOS, not because that's what Commodore or Microsoft really wanted, or really that it's what many people wanted at all, but because you could just do it, and someone did.
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