Date   : Fri, 17 Sep 1999 13:29:43 +0200
From   : "Mark Usher" <marku@...>
Subject: Re: Elite

> If a program is larger on an 8086 platform compared to 6502, possible
> reasons are either:
>
> 1. sloppy programming/optimization (because more resources are
>    available), or
> 2. more features (because more resources are available)
>
> ... or both.

Plus the fact that more games are programmed nowadays in compiled languages
such as C, or with game generators.
This obviously adds to the size of the code compared to the asbler used in
many of the old 8-bit games.

Mark