Comment by ddtaylor
2 months ago
I disagree.
There is a massive interest in older computing, both from a programming and from an art perspective. The demo scene thrives on it.
I have seen many times (and recently) a lot of interest here on HN about ancient 90s arcade machines with "unbeatable" encryption, etc.
There is a massive interest in doing reverse engineering old games to a bit-perfect level.
Kind of -- but bear in mind that the software this article is about (I wrote the article, BTW) is older than the first microcomputer. (I'm using the MITS Altair as my example here.)
Retrocomputing is huge, but it rarely goes much older than CP/M.