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From: bd733 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT edu (Jason M. Daniels)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: "Are Allegro's routines fast enough to write Quake-like games?" - No. HUH?
Date: 4 Jun 1997 04:04:53 GMT
Organization: The Rio Grande Free-Net, El Paso Community College, El Paso, TX
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John M. Aldrich (fighteer AT cs DOT com) wrote:
> I have been able to _play_ it on a 486DX2/66 with 24 megs of RAM, but
> not very well.  I think the FPS was around five most of the time, and
> less for complex areas.  Quake just uses too much floating point code to
> run well on a non-Pentium architecture.  With 16 megs, it should still
> run, but you will want to use a boot disk or a multi-config to get the
> maximum free RAM out of your system.  Otherwise, you'll be able to get
> up for a cup of coffee between frames.  <g>

Oh, come on. You haven't lived until you've ran Quake on a 486DX\33 with 
8 MB of RAM and an Oak OTI-066 SVGA card (ancient, ICYDK). It actually 
runs pretty well... if you shrink the screen to tiny size. :)

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