> Super slow because for every frame every necessary image is read from the hard disk and for every calculation involving a lookup table the hard disk is also accessed

The 8086 was limited to 640k, a 286 could actually do 16MB with paging.

Is the problem simply the ram limit on the 8086? Is that why assets have to be reloaded off disk constantly?

Couldn’t a 286 with enough memory handle it (if you were emulating that processor)?

I’m curious what the issue is.