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Why is this advertising-like stuff worth of hackernews?

It means almost an order of magnitude less divisions (and additional calculations as well). Quake had to do this because it would have been too much especially for a low-end Pentiu…

Afaik, Quake does not do one divide per pixel, it is in steps of 8 pixels (see dscan.c in winquake). Yes, there is non divide but instead of taking hundreds of cycles, tables and o…

I think the article says the same. The gba port is impressive. I guess FPU would not be even required with 120 pix horizontal resolution. CM33 does in a single cycle even more: 2 1…

The LCD internal memory is write only and it is used just to hold the image being shown. Unlike the GBA where the video RAM is like a GP RAM, just slower.

It's even simpler than this. On the "pregnancy test" Doom is actually running on a pc and the scaled video is sent via usb to the replaced microcontroller which drives the replaced…

Lots of people trying to compare our 10k-year old technology (200 years if we talk about machines, even less if we talk about robots) with something that evolved basically with bil…