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Basically everybody making a game for Amiga made the equivalent of their own graphics drivers. Programming direct to the specialized hardware, and M68000 assembly was so easy and intuitive it was a joy to use.
But that way of programming apps is completely obsolete today. Now it's all about abstraction layers. And for a guy like me, it feels like I lost control.
If you want to program "old school" you have to play with things like Arduino.
I'm a relic now, that's just how it is.
Time to program the ESP8266 :-)
My wife actually used that for something she needed to be able to remote control a few years back. She tells me it an amazing chip. 😀
Wow cool!
Yes it's one of the most cheapest and amazing chips but also not very known about, or so I feel.
I made a little webserver on it that polled a site I had, so that I could switch (ok, only a led but still) on and off both from the esp and the website. Quite capable little chip.