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Holy sh*t Tom’s Hardware has gone downhill. Every advert snuck past both my Pi-Hole and my iOS filters, and it even tried forcing a file download on site open on my iPhone. As for the HL1 port: I love it, always wanted an N95 (I had an N80ie that I loved), and these sorts of retro experiments are always a joy to read about.
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Yeah, I remember playing it on a P233MHz without a 3D graphics card... It was sort of playable, but any alpha-blended effects like muzzle flashes or explosions slowed it to single-digit FPS for a second :D Still, I played it through like that. Today's gamers complain if a game momentarily drops below 60fps or whatever.
Yeah, I get why people want it to be smooth but when you hear somethings I do wonder if folks could be a little more patient. "My game froze for 100ms on a one time shader compilation dropping... totally unplayable!" I get it, shader compilation is a little pain point but it isn't that bad. Some compilation times are less than the frame times we used to play at in the 80's/90's.
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I played it back when it came out on a P166 in software mode and it was fine at that resolution.
I did the same, I do wonder if it holds up as well as my memory remembers. Probably not. Like I remember Doom running fine on my 486 SX 25Mhz, but looking back at it now, it wasn't that great. It took a top end Pentium to really get it into smooth-ish 20fps+ territory.
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Have you checked the fair phone?
I'm not the person that you replied to, but I have. I bought a FP3 and it's waiting in my drawer until the last 2G network goes down. I'm using my N86 until then. I want/need a phone that I can answer with one hand without looking at the screen and can record phone calls automatically so don't have to search for pen and paper all the time. No current phone is capable of these two things.
This makes me sad. Not that this work was done, it’s incredible, but that we’ve fallen so far from what was possible on meager hardware. Now everyone has a super computer in Their pocket that feel slow.
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Eh. I’m on a 5 year old iPhone and it still feels perfectly fast.
Your 5 year old iPhone has how many cores, how many GBs of RAM? I would need to search the specs, but a N95 has 1 core and well below 1GB. A factor of dozens in the specs, but still you can get good user experience on the old devices if the software is written in a smart way. The lower resolution of the N95 acts in favor of performance. But admittedly against user experience.
We're just looking at a single app optimized for a platform nearly 2 decades after release and somehow concluding people don't ever optimize software these days. Some software is always going to be inefficient as can be but there is more well optimized software available now than there ever has been.
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I'm not the person that you replied to, but I have. I bought a FP3 and it's waiting in my drawer until the last 2G network goes down. I'm using my N86 until then. I want/need a phone that I can answer with one hand without looking at the screen and can record phone calls automatically so don't have to search for pen and paper all the time. No current phone is capable of these two things.
Basically any Android phone where you can gain root access is capable, you can set up automatic recording of every call and set answering call with a button (like Volume Up).
Are you sure? I didn't find that option on FP3.
Holy sh*t Tom’s Hardware has gone downhill. Every advert snuck past both my Pi-Hole and my iOS filters, and it even tried forcing a file download on site open on my iPhone. As for the HL1 port: I love it, always wanted an N95 (I had an N80ie that I loved), and these sorts of retro experiments are always a joy to read about.
I simply use brave browser at the moment. I did not see any ads.
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54Mbps is enough for anyone!
My powerful Android tablet is limited to 72mbps link due to a quirk with the way the XDA developer implemented wifi support on the lineageos branch of my tablet, meaning the device can't see the region specific 5ghz band of the modem of my ISP is outputting, so it can only connect to the 2,4ghz band of that SSID meaning it's stuck to 72mbps. And despite this, it works ok for what I used it: Brave web browsing, youtub…
I noticed quite recently in awe at the Chinese parts recycling market with the N95 (and a few other old Nokias) - https://www.ebay.com/itm/227249518747 Apparently they've been rebuilding full "new" N95s and other Nokia fare from old motherboards and new spares/knockoff parts. It's like a new legitimate knockoff from the grey market? They've even got things like 'refurbed' N900s... Mine came with a text message still…