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> They are quite different games, so hard to compare

Yeah, that's fair. I was just wondering what the performance of a modern version as close to the original would be, if written with Godot or another vastly higher-level framework than handwritten assembly. Given the 3+ orders of magnitude difference in processing power and memory.

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The fair comparison is between the assembly version and its godot port. I didn't actually notice any performance difference since th game is capped by its 50 frame per second.

Yep, at equal resolution the game should presumably run at at least 10000fps uncapped on a modern machine. Of course that's not how it works in practice due to bottlenecks in the input stack and elsewhere.

I also doubt the Godot version fits in 512kB of RAM ;)

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