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Re: HACX shareware has been released!

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From: Tom Robinson
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 00:00
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Before I snipped some bits, Adam Williamson wrote:

> >
> >no its not a joke. FYI, doom cannot achieve and maintain its max FPS
> >unless its running on a Pentium. just like any other modern game.
>
> Well, no. Quake needs to be on a PII(Pro) or a 3D accelerator to
> achieve and maintain 30fps, mostly. Doom can manage it happily on a
> P75 with a bog-standard graphics card. Can Quake set and maintain a
> very acceptable (27fps) framerate on a 5x86/133? No. It gets about
> 9fps. It's inevitable Doom runs _better_ on Pentiums, but you can't
> deny that the engine is now old (if infinitely less annoying)
> technology which was designed for low-range 486's (which cost, at its
> first release, about $2000.)

Yeah, for the most part I hate it when people gripe about framerates (ie Oh! I can only get 30fps Oh Oh! It aint fair!) but they forget that the standard TV/Cinema (well here in the UK at least) runs at around 24fps.  Now just tell me they're jerky...


> >as for quality...wordperfect 1.0 never crashed in my experience.
> >MSoffice, on the other hand, crashed during setup. do you want to
> >rephrase your statement?
>
> If they were both fully installed, which would you use to make that
> vital presentation? :).

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From: Tom Robinson <tomro...@easynet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: HACX shareware has been released!
Date: 1997/10/14
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