I’m skimming over the transcript and this dude is all “well most games didn’t take advantage of anything beyond 512K so what use was it” and, well, we did use the damn things for stuff beyond games back in the day, you know.
Games are the part that’s most interesting for retrocomputing and nostalgia; I played a lot of games on my Amigas, but I also did stuff like “laid out the newsletter for the local Dr Who fan club” and “chatted on BBSs” and “dabbled with art and animation” and all of those things were enhanced by having more than the bare minimum of RAM. Hell, I connected it to the Internet by getting a PPP gateway up on a mainframe at the local university and browsed the Web, that sure was helped by extra RAM.
Games are the part that’s most interesting for retrocomputing and nostalgia; I played a lot of games on my Amigas, but I also did stuff like “laid out the newsletter for the local Dr Who fan club” and “chatted on BBSs” and “dabbled with art and animation” and all of those things were enhanced by having more than the bare minimum of RAM. Hell, I connected it to the Internet by getting a PPP gateway up on a mainframe at the local university and browsed the Web, that sure was helped by extra RAM.