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It's all about customer support. The average user buys a computer from a mass-retailer and never replaces the stock graphics chip. The new Aquarium must look spectacular on that machine, or we will get (literally) millions of complaints. Now that baseline machine is FAR more capable than the minimum hardware that existed when I wrote the first program. There MAY be a few extra features for those with high end equipment, but writing a bunch of special versions is a slippery slope that can lead to many years of extra work (and by then the hardware has changed again, so you can never really catch up).
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