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Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95

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Re: Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95

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Post by moomoo11 »

joe_mamba wrote: post #58
vitally3643 wrote: post #53

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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 get like 15-50 mbps down on my iPhone 16 when I'm on 5g... and that's enough to stream music, youtube, use as a hotspot, etc.

sometimes if I'm lucky i'll get much higher speeds but I guess being in a city with 100s of thousands of other people within a few miles of me means I have to do with like 40 mbps

Re: Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95

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Post by therealdrag0 »

jonhohle wrote: post #70

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.

Eh. I’m on a 5 year old iPhone and it still feels perfectly fast.

Re: Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95

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Post by realityfactchex »

burnte wrote: post #36
realityfactchex wrote: post #35

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> They've even got things like 'refurbed' N900s As an original N900 user, I got one of the eBay "refurbed" N900s from China I think a few years ago for fun. It was a piece of junk, literally, like arrived with broken keyboard etc. A clear case of false advertising. I got a full refund. YMMV. I was really thinking I was buying a proper refurbed N900. Maybe they're out there. Buyer beware.

I had an N900 when it came out, after falling in love with the N810, one of my favorite devices to this day, I'd buy a new one with modern guts in a heartbeat. The N900 was junk. The build quality was terrible and the software was half baked. Right after it released Nokia said they were cancelling everything about it and pretended to care about software going forward but didn't. In the VERY short time I had one I had…

I loved the n900 daily from mid-late 2010 to ~mid-2012. Text editor on "Debian". "Desktop" Firefox. Terminal. Maps. Some decent other apps: a good drawing app that I used on the train a lot for whiteboarding.

I liked Maemo 5. Having never used the n810 nor Maemo 4, I suppose didn't know what I was missing.

iPhone did not get copy-paste until mid-2009!

Eventually my n900's microSD jack broke off the board, which I've read was common.

Re: Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95

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Post by usr1106 »

therealdrag0 wrote: post #82
jonhohle wrote: post #70

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.

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.

Re: Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95

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Post by p4bl0 »

Cloudef wrote: post #63
p4bl0 wrote: post #41

Oooh! I fondly remember my N95! Pictures and movies it took were great , at least for the time, and it had apps and a lot of stuffs like a browser that were presented as new on the phone space when the first iPhone was released, while I had my N95 for almost a year at this time. Symbian was a really nice system.

Symbian was really awful OS. Nokia's mistake was ignoring Maemo.

I liked Symbian a lot, but I agree that Maemo was superior! Two after what I told above, in 2010, a few friends of mine had N900 and they seemed great. I was still in my study at the time and I interviewed for a summer internship at Nokia to work on Maemo and it was going great, but at some point during the recruitment process, that part of Nokia was sold (to Intel I think? the MeeGo project was announced a bit later) so they stopped all hiring even of interns and I had to find another internship.

Re: Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95

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Post by pavlov »

usr1106 wrote: post #85
therealdrag0 wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

64MB RAM on the Nokia N95.

Re: Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95

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Post by [deleted] »

a3w wrote: post #12

332 MHz Dual ARM 11 ?! Half-Life ran smooth in Pentium 100 single core. Then, they added Steam, and my Celeron 300 had trouble running it. Shit by Valve to coule games with a mandatory subscriber agreement. Even breaks EU law to "one-sided change" it again and again later, to keep access to your game library.

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Re: Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95

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Post by M95D »

SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #77
jkestner wrote: post #52

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Tell you what though, I would jump on a modern N95. I only really want a basic phone with a good camera, and sure, Python. Only need LTE and a thinner form factor.

I was big into dumbphones about 10-15 years ago and the problem with dumbphones is the same problem with dumbtv and other ones, is that the market is already small, and those in the market for these things are opinionated as shit about the specific configuration they want. So you are presented probably with maybe 2, 3 viable options if you are lucky, none are the thing that satisfies your actual needs, and they are a…

N95 was considered a smartphone at the time.

Re: Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95

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Post by M95D »

ricardonunez wrote: post #71
jkestner wrote: post #52

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Tell you what though, I would jump on a modern N95. I only really want a basic phone with a good camera, and sure, Python. Only need LTE and a thinner form factor.

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.

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