From: "Gil Myers" <gmeyers AT logan DOT net>
Subject: Re: "Are Allegro's routines fast enough to write Quake-like games?" - No. HUH?
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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.