In that sense DOS programs run without any guard rails. Video memory is just a memory address where you can throw data in and it shows up on screen, but it also means that any kind of memory pointer issue can write over almost anything in RAM. It was trial and error to ensure everything worked and seeing as machines were not always online, there was a much smaller risk of security issues being leveraged.

There is a fine line that needs to be walked between innovation and appeasing share holders. Cook is mostly just doing the latter.

They were brilliant at pushing for new stuff but it came with the issues of pushing a little to fast at times.

If you have been there, you feel that one.

Because as it stands there is this notion of person all responsibility, to be Atlus holding the weight of the world. For example, it is estimated that in at lot of poorer counties, the surgery to prevent many forms of vision loss costs $20. That is wild, but it can be a source of self inflicted shame. So you want to buy Mario Kart World, it is $80... Is my enjoyment of this game worth more than the vision of 4 people? That is a wild trip to work through. There is a memorial for Mahatma Gandhi that has an incription, something like "Think of the poorest person you have ever meet and ask yourself how your next action will help them". I wish more folks would ask that.

When you see these monstrous fundings for all manner of AI stuff and wonder where we went so wrong.

The folk I respect the most are those that give up the trappings of excess in the hopes of advancing others rather than hoarding wealth like dragons. To do the opposite of what many influencers do. We need more folk like that.

Microsoft had the original development team, Nintendo had the software and Activision had the James Bond License. Microsoft was willing to develop it for both Xbox 360 and Wii but they simply couldn't get the rights between all three straightened out.

If those three, companies that are no strangers to handling legal issues cannot figure out, it doesn't look good for smaller titles like this.

One that I grabbed for $10 was Adrenix, a 'Descent' clone that has very few mentions around and reviewed fairly averagely. I loved it!

As for modern adaptions of games, if they can do it either like 3D Realms retro style like with Ion Fury, or go into the full re-imagined space like they did with Doom 2016. But any middle ground seems to lead to disappointment.

More than happy to be proven wrong. I mean they are still progressing but it is just a case of figuring out how long their runway is (economics).

When on Windows I organise my entire work flow in Notepad.

Personally I never felt Mac OS was that locked down, but it has been over a decade since I last used it.

The only time I felt it was trying to delete 'Chess' only it to be listed as a vital system application. I know this isn't true but I would love it if Chess turned out to be a load bearing application for the entire OS. Like folks at Apple don't know why but if you remove it, everything stops.At least MS managed to remove the load bearing Space cadet pinball. Replaced it with a One drive popup that handles all memory management in the kernel ;)

Back to the original point, by comparison on iOS I definetly did feel the chains. One could fear Mac OS will turn into that but they haven't conditioned people yet.

While it might mean the incident rare of some things goes up, those that it reduces are far more impactful and where far more likely to have mortality issues. Sort of like how Chemotherapy is poisonous but potential has better long term odds, only chemo is far more extreme than GPL1.

Time will tell but so far it is looking kind of good with a few lesser issues.

A great long form video on this is "Shouting at stars : A history of interstellar messages". It really highlights just how empty it all is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFI5WpK2sgg