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 Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5n2ph5$mld@news.epcc.edu> References: <199705232152 DOT QAA08574 AT rrnet DOT com> <33875EFC DOT 2306 AT imag DOT net> <5m8o7e$mo6 AT freenet-news DOT carleton DOT ca> <338b7ff5 DOT 3171460 AT news DOT cybermax DOT net> <5n24bf$ert AT nr1 DOT toronto DOT istar DOT net> <33949617 DOT 7A4 AT cs DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rgfn.epcc.edu To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk John M. Aldrich (fighteer AT cs DOT com) wrote: > I have been able to _play_ it on a 486DX2/66 with 24 megs of RAM, but > not very well. I think the FPS was around five most of the time, and > less for complex areas. Quake just uses too much floating point code to > run well on a non-Pentium architecture. With 16 megs, it should still > run, but you will want to use a boot disk or a multi-config to get the > maximum free RAM out of your system. Otherwise, you'll be able to get > up for a cup of coffee between frames. Oh, come on. You haven't lived until you've ran Quake on a 486DX\33 with 8 MB of RAM and an Oak OTI-066 SVGA card (ancient, ICYDK). It actually runs pretty well... if you shrink the screen to tiny size. :) -- Jason Daniels -- bd733 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT edu ---> BELIEVE THE LIE <--- Linux: The choice of a GNU generation. Winblows 95: The world's best-selling computer virus. */ /* Do not hand edit! */ #define XM4X5 0 /* FONT */ #define XM4X6 1 /* FONT */ #define XM5X8 2 /* FONT */ END begin 600 Fonts.dat M]!3$PNZ_ $<'*_;W!.04U%Z_ %_UA--%@U1D].WU0``!\6"P'__\\` M! `%W/_R\0`%#P$!```Q!>KQ.0(N`0$`20,A#DH!,0!A"14",@(`8P$^`V4! 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