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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.


It doesn't have a dual CPU or dual-core CPU. It's one CPU core plus a DSP core (which is probably not used by the game).

Quake ran smooth on a Pentium 100. Half-Life absolutely wouldn't have, even at 320x240.

I played it back when it came out on a P166 in software mode and it was fine at that resolution.

I did the same, I do wonder if it holds up as well as my memory remembers. Probably not.

Like I remember Doom running fine on my 486 SX 25Mhz, but looking back at it now, it wasn't that great. It took a top end Pentium to really get it into smooth-ish 20fps+ territory.


Pentium 100 couldn't even play Quake2 properly. You probably mean Pentium 2 series.

Pentium 1 133mhz ran Quake2 pretty darn well as long as you had hardware accel. Without hadware accel it was ass.

(maybe even Pentium 100)


nope. 14fps on pentium 200mhz with 32mb ram in 512x400 or similar mode (640x480 was too much)

Yeah, I remember playing it on a P233MHz without a 3D graphics card... It was sort of playable, but any alpha-blended effects like muzzle flashes or explosions slowed it to single-digit FPS for a second :D Still, I played it through like that. Today's gamers complain if a game momentarily drops below 60fps or whatever.

Yeah, I get why people want it to be smooth but when you hear somethings I do wonder if folks could be a little more patient.

"My game froze for 100ms on a one time shader compilation dropping... totally unplayable!"

I get it, shader compilation is a little pain point but it isn't that bad. Some compilation times are less than the frame times we used to play at in the 80's/90's.


If you condition yourself to be OK with 15-25 fps, it's almost fine. If you run a game at 60FPS generally, then an occasional hiccup of 100ms will really throw you off. Similarly, the gameplay must be designed differently between low and high FPS games - you don't want the player to feel like they'd have been able to play the game differently if it was running smoother.

Didn't you have a Voodoo-card or something? I'm quite sure I could run HL1 on a P166 with a Voodoo-card with ok frame rate.

With a Voodoo I assume you could get it up to 30fps fairly comfortably but they still weren't the most common back then.

Still remember the concern when Quake 3 would require a GPU as they were not entirely ubiquitous then. It was the right more and it helped the industry forward but it was a little pain point at that time.


"69 is a meme number", well no, 69 is innuendo. And sex = bad for bots. 67 is the meme number.


  "69 is a meme number", well no, 69 is innuendo.
It's obviously both.


And if you look at the bar chart you'll see 69 is almost never picked, while 67 is almost as often as 42. The whole research might be written by AI without any human review.


That's a very recent meme. See https://xkcd.com/3184/ for some older ones.


Claude Code 2.1 / Opus 4.7 looks best to me: Dome and ceiling structure is correcter than the others.

Why is this medium ranked, and not on par with the best two?


Look at a picture of the Pantheon, the dome isn't as dome-like as you would imagine. It's more like a hump shape.


Dome looks wrong to me. Look at a few other photos - it's far from being a hemisphere


"uv tree -od1" probably works. But yes, critique of pacman and other managers was that it needed to offer human sounding commands for frequent commands, like apt does.


To be excapt: This is a Mäp of Metäl, no hair was cut in making the map.


As a German, metal umlauts look so confusing


m̈ëẗäl̈ üm̈l̈äüẗs̈ (awww, you can't put an umlaut on a space) (oh wow the HM font does not like what I just did. It looks fine in the monospace font)


Isn't the ¨ (U+00A8) character equivalent to an umlaut on a space?

I suppose you used ◌̈ (U+0308).


I'll be honest, I used a slightly crappy website instead of manually doing it


He means no brown and/or muslim migrants. The EU border would infamously let in even exchange students when the war heated up in 2022, except for those they did not want for clearly racist reasons.

Strange, that if you are from Norway or Switzerland, you cannot be a migrant anywhere, instead you are always a welcome citizen born afar who did not know it yet.

Racisms and other -isms seem to be a problem, let's hope it gets better, not worse, in Poland and on earth.


Norway and Switzerland are both Schengen area countries though and have been for decades, which is why there would be much less friction in getting in as a migrant, or no friction at all as a traveler.


To all you nitpickers: I looked at a "white" wall and out of the window, and teal was slightly blue or green tinted afterward. Do that, too. Also, screen brightness shifted my result, as color calibration is of course an issue.


He compares server requests to radiation. It can be harmful or harmless, and just happens in background.


PSA: units never belong in square brackets.

[R] = Ohm

Never [Ohms]


But heavier than a clamshell laptop.

And just barely smaller than netbooks.

That said, I guess to everyone born after 2000 a PC is considered kaputt if it does not have touch input.

Even my 1994 gf tries to touch every display to see if it is directly usable, or needs an obscure pointer to be moved and click to be found either on keys or tap or press.


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