Comment by justsomehnguy

> # Why??????

> The CPU wasn't terribly slow for the time, but wasting cycles would have been noticed.

> Compressing data means you save space on the disc...

While wasting cycles isn't a good thing it's even worse if you are wasting those cycles by not using them because you are waiting for a sloooow media.

And while you can invent a compressed format for the every asset type you have it would be really easier to just compress the whole thing a let the compressor to do the magic.

NB: I still somewhat remember the original SC and it was like 'future is now' with all those glorious shadows and sunshine blooming.