Originally Posted By: tanstaafl.
Originally Posted By: jbrinkerhoff
Heck Id love to learn how to code JUST to work on such a project.
Before you jump into the deep end of the pool, ask Hugo how many man-hours they put into emplode and the firmware for the player. The answer may surprise you.


While it is true that they sunk a lot of man years in the project. It is also true that a large part of what they did wouldn't need to be done if you were starting it now. You'd be starting from a very different place than they were if you built on the base of something like iOS or Android (from both a hardware and software point of view).

Hardware and software has moved on. Just the simple fact that hardware is dramatically faster would save you lots of time spent endlessly optimising stuff to get it to work with the CPU power available.

And I'll bet Roger could write emplode in no time nowadays wink
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