You could always visit my site;o) I can't remember if we have any Mac stuff listed though. If not you could suggest a few additions to the archive should you find any.... save me some work anyway =o)
I run UT at 640x480 because I don't want any lag but that's not the point I was making... more engines = crappier coded games = more powerful hardware needed
Because the engine is so badly managed you *need* the more powerful hardware to make it playable:o) A well programmed Unreal Tournament in ASM would run great on a P200MMX with a crappy 4MB DX powered card, hell I was happy with Doom 2 on my 486-100 - that was powerful enough for me then - and still would be should Win2K have happened to be able run on it:o)
Just think if M$ (who of all people would be capable) programmed exclusively in ASM can you imagine how much new hardware would be needed? People would be downgrading not upgrading!
All I want is an efficiently programmed game that's small in size so I don't need another hard drive to install it. Unreal Tournament in ASM - 20MB and faster than a cheetah riding a rocket, lovely:o)
....but it's fast enough for me and it does what I want it to do. I don't feel the need to upgrade to "the next best thing" just for the hell of it unlike some people do because a) I'm married with kids and I can't afford to and b) I don't want to!. Computing's a hobby and should be treated as such, flaming people over the speed of their processor is quite lame and really uncalled for. How many FPS you run Unreal Tournament or Quake 2 with is really not my concern but I like many other "under-powered users" are happy with a 640x480/16 at 30-40 fps, why should I not be happy with that? I grew up with the 8 bit machines of the 80's with tape loading! Now that was slooooow!. Speed is relative, you've got a computer and your used to it and your happy with that, but for a man in my position anything more than I've got now would be complete overkill and not to mention what the missus would say if I spent our money on more silicon!
My computer 6 months ago consisted of an AMD-K6 300 processor, 64MB of SD-RAM, AWE 64 sound, an ATI 3D Rage Pro 4MB and the rest of the usual suspects (CD/Floppy/etc).... now it consists of an AMD-K6 300, 256MB of SD-RAM, AWE 64 sound, and a Hercules Prophet 4000XT 32MB gfx card. Have you got it yet? **Upgrade as you can afford it** Owning a "white box" has brought the greatest amount of computing pleasure and none of the headache's that a pre-built Compaq clone would. Now on to the OS::cough:: =o)
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You could always visit my site ;o) I can't remember if we have any Mac stuff listed though. If not you could suggest a few additions to the archive should you find any.... save me some work anyway =o)
Lets hope we don't have to hardwire ourselves into Windoze GUI anytime soon, one pop-up too many and it's daisy pushing time :o)
I bet you can't say that backwards ;o)
I run UT at 640x480 because I don't want any lag but that's not the point I was making... more engines = crappier coded games = more powerful hardware needed
:o) A well programmed Unreal Tournament in ASM would run great on a P200MMX with a crappy 4MB DX powered card, hell I was happy with Doom 2 on my 486-100 - that was powerful enough for me then - and still would be should Win2K have happened to be able run on it :o)
Because the engine is so badly managed you *need* the more powerful hardware to make it playable
Just think if M$ (who of all people would be capable) programmed exclusively in ASM can you imagine how much new hardware would be needed? People would be downgrading not upgrading!
All I want is an efficiently programmed game that's small in size so I don't need another hard drive to install it. Unreal Tournament in ASM - 20MB and faster than a cheetah riding a rocket, lovely :o)
....but it's fast enough for me and it does what I want it to do. I don't feel the need to upgrade to "the next best thing" just for the hell of it unlike some people do because a) I'm married with kids and I can't afford to and b) I don't want to!. Computing's a hobby and should be treated as such, flaming people over the speed of their processor is quite lame and really uncalled for. How many FPS you run Unreal Tournament or Quake 2 with is really not my concern but I like many other "under-powered users" are happy with a 640x480/16 at 30-40 fps, why should I not be happy with that? I grew up with the 8 bit machines of the 80's with tape loading! Now that was slooooow!. Speed is relative, you've got a computer and your used to it and your happy with that, but for a man in my position anything more than I've got now would be complete overkill and not to mention what the missus would say if I spent our money on more silicon!
My computer 6 months ago consisted of an AMD-K6 300 processor, 64MB of SD-RAM, AWE 64 sound, an ATI 3D Rage Pro 4MB and the rest of the usual suspects (CD/Floppy/etc).... now it consists of an AMD-K6 300, 256MB of SD-RAM, AWE 64 sound, and a Hercules Prophet 4000XT 32MB gfx card. Have you got it yet? **Upgrade as you can afford it** Owning a "white box" has brought the greatest amount of computing pleasure and none of the headache's that a pre-built Compaq clone would. Now on to the OS ::cough:: =o)