Rant on why we need better computers!

[Kjell]

Well, that's not true at all.

I knew somebody was going to say that Using abstraction layers doesn't inherently mean worse performance, it's just not worth the time to write intelligent compilers that scan entire projects and apply every trick in the book.

[Kjell]

And keep in mind that games made with GameMaker used to run just fine on a 1Mhz CPU back in 1985

[Michaël Samyn]

I know that my games will run faster and faster in the next couple of years

I actually had some problems with my older work in Director concerning this. I didn't bother to limit the framerate of some of my projects and on contemporary computers they run so fast that you can't interact with them anymore. 

Here's the interactive birth card for my son, e.g.!