Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/06/17/06:29:13
Actually Quake in the vesa modes run like shit on my P200... 640x480 is
*almost* playable anything above that runs like 320x200 on a 486 25....
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Gil Myers <gmeyers AT logan DOT net> wrote in article
<01bc73d7$57955aa0$f68033cf AT pentium>...
> Roberto Henriquez Laurent <shl24634 AT alumnos DOT inf-cr DOT uclm DOT es> wrote in
> article <33953049 DOT 82D8D021 AT alumnos DOT inf-cr DOT uclm DOT es>...
> > Jeffrey Drake wrote:
> >
> > > being that the previous message was about Quake, has anybody gotten
> > > quake
> > > to work on 486DX2/66 w/16Meg ram? I have, but haven't found anyone
> > > else who
> > > has.
> > >
> > I have too (shareware versions 1.01-1.06). But when I upgraded to a
> > GUS-supporting version it became impossible to play. (It almost was,
> > already). Even the FX where played sluggishly :-( However I didn't
> > need any boot-disk.
>
> Well, I've actually played Quake (shareware version) on my trusty old
> 486DX/50
> w 8M RAM. Needless to say it was only playable with the screen shrunk
down
>
> to about a quarter of the normal size, but it ran.
>
> SFX were fine, but if more than 2 things were moving around at a time,
it
> got
> really choppy, no matter what the screen size. Also ran like crap in
VESA
> modes
> on that machine too.
>
>
>
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