Fun fact for @xboxahoy and others who've covered the Polybius myth: Legends never die.
Christian Windler, the mentally ill guy behind part of the mythos, seems to have resurfaced, and is now harassing the @mamedev_org team over obsolete computers. https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=118342&page=2 …
There's a significant difference between supporting a codebase that doesn't need that much CPU power, and cultivating a codebase that by definition, does. And it is, in neither case, a snub nor a support or the computer manufacturing hegemony. It's just people coding.