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Article #93837Re: HACX shareware has been released!
From: Tom Robinson
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 00:00
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------83D8CCD3429522C35064A1CF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 $2000.) Yeah, for the most part I hate it when people gripe about framerates (ie Oh! I can only get 30fps Oh Oh! It aint fair!) but they forget that the standard TV/Cinema (well here in the UK at least) runs at around 24fps. Now just tell me they're jerky... > >as for quality...wordperfect 1.0 never crashed in my experience. > >MSoffice, on the other hand, crashed during setup. do you want to > >rephrase your statement? > > If they were both fully installed, which would you use to make that > vital presentation? :). Office everytime (just incase anyones taking a survey :-) --------------------------- Tom Robinson (aka Mystican) TeamOnslaught member tomro...@easynet.co.uk http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arcade/7286 Visit the homepage!!! --------------83D8CCD3429522C35064A1CF Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Tom Robinson Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" begin: vcard fn: Tom Robinson n: Robinson;Tom org: TeamOnslaught adr: Mind your own business! :-);;;Guildford;Surrey;;England (United Kingdom) email;internet: tomro...@easynet.co.uk title: Mr. x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version: 2.1 end: vcard --------------83D8CCD3429522C35064A1CF--
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From: Tom Robinson <tomro...@easynet.co.uk> Subject: Re: HACX shareware has been released! Date: 1997/10/14 Message-ID: <34439DD4.FD0A6E5B@easynet.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 281056780 References: <61759d$htu$1@ultra.sonic.net> <343AEB23.F6957256@interaccess.com> <61j6d5$r0p@alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu> <343dc731.174662@nntp.netcomuk.co.uk> <343DF23C.FFF@gmx.net> <343FC92C.310C@v-wave.com> <343eae0f.1178920@news.keyway.net> <343f25af.1077107@news.demon.co.uk> Organization: TeamOnslaught Newsgroups: alt.binaries.doom,alt.binaries.games.quake,alt.games.apogee,alt.games.descent,alt.games.doom,alt.games.doom.ii,alt.games.duke3d,rec.games.computer.quake.misc,alt.games.upcoming-3d,rec.games.computer.doom.misc,rec.games.computer.doom.playing,rec.games.computer.quake.misc,rec.games.computer.quake.playing MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit