281–288 of 288 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doom II on a 386 at 40 MHz was running fine.
Doom 2 only ran fine on a 386 if you made the window the size of a postage stamp!
However a friends AMD 386DX-40 ran it fine, well 'fine' until I saw it on a Pentium 60.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
IIRC, it was the 680x0's that so often had the crippled memory bus. The slowness on the PowerPC probably had more to do with the CPU power. PowerMacs struggled to be competitive with Pentiums for integer computation, and often the PowerPC Macs were not clocked competitively against their PC brethren. You referenced a 601... The PowerPC 601 based machines still had NuBus, which was slow compared to VLB & PCI. All the…
Some PowerPC Macs were particularly crippled, such as the x200 series, using a 64-bit PPC CPU on 32-bit data bus, and memory running as low as 1/2 to 1/3 CPU speed. Because of the horrible design, heavy network traffic would critically slow the machine. See more info here: http://lowendmac.com/2014/power-mac-and-performa-x200-road-a...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
IIRC, it was the 680x0's that so often had the crippled memory bus. The slowness on the PowerPC probably had more to do with the CPU power. PowerMacs struggled to be competitive with Pentiums for integer computation, and often the PowerPC Macs were not clocked competitively against their PC brethren. You referenced a 601... The PowerPC 601 based machines still had NuBus, which was slow compared to VLB & PCI. All the…
Some PowerPC Macs were particularly crippled, such as the x200 series, using a 64-bit PPC CPU on 32-bit data bus, and memory running as low as 1/2 to 1/3 CPU speed. Because of the horrible design, heavy network traffic would critically slow the machine. See more info here: http://lowendmac.com/2014/power-mac-and-performa-x200-road-a...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
They just published a remake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overload_(video_game)
This is not a remake, it's a 'spiritual successor' due to the devs not owning the IP rights. It feels just like descent...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Me too! It was fantastic. Ironically, I stopped playing a few weeks before it came out of closed beta (just didn’t have time and then never went back to it... now its changed so much I feel a bit overwhelmed by the thoughts of going back to it) I actually heard about PoE on HN too, back in 2012 :)
The latest update has a sort of dungeon building mechanic and its so so good. Highly recommend trying it out again. The art & graphics have improved a lot since closed beta too (I was there ... just never left)
(although a big reason behind why I haven’t is that I mainly play on consoles now, will have to see how well it runs on my shitty machine!)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes! I actually played it through last year. https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/wiki/index#wiki_diablo_i_gam... I've also used this HD mod that adds some characters from Diablo II, better multiplayer, and increases the difficulty: https://mod.diablo.noktis.pl/download
Thanks! I'll try it out. Did you liked the game?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some PowerPC Macs were particularly crippled, such as the x200 series, using a 64-bit PPC CPU on 32-bit data bus, and memory running as low as 1/2 to 1/3 CPU speed. Because of the horrible design, heavy network traffic would critically slow the machine. See more info here: http://lowendmac.com/2014/power-mac-and-performa-x200-road-a...
The 603 in the x200's was a 32-bit CPU, and it explicitly supported 32-bit memory bus interfaces. That was part of how it kept costs down. In short, not a bug, but a feature (and there was support for interleaving to get you some of the benefits of a 64-bit bus). As per the link, the clock speed of the CPU was 90-120MHz. No PC was using 90-120MHz memory. They were all dropping to 1/2 & 1/3 (including Pentiums you are…
On that note, I finally found the link I was originally looking for - a later post which goes into way more detail as to the flaws of these systems. I can vouch for the unbelievable slowness of these machines as I used one for years. haha :(
"Performa and Power Mac x200 Issues" http://lowendmac.com/1997/performa-and-power-mac-x200-issues...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The 603 in the x200's was a 32-bit CPU, and it explicitly supported 32-bit memory bus interfaces. That was part of how it kept costs down. In short, not a bug, but a feature (and there was support for interleaving to get you some of the benefits of a 64-bit bus). As per the link, the clock speed of the CPU was 90-120MHz. No PC was using 90-120MHz memory. They were all dropping to 1/2 & 1/3 (including Pentiums you are…
I think there is some confusion on the part of the author of that LEM post. The processor was indeed 32-bit but the data path was 64-bit. /shrug On that note, I finally found the link I was originally looking for - a later post which goes into way more detail as to the flaws of these systems. I can vouch for the unbelievable slowness of these machines as I used one for years. haha :( "Performa and Power Mac x200 Issu…