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Re: 486's Suck for Duke3d and others 3d games

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From: Gre... Richard Green
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 00:00
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>>Ok if you people with 486's havent noticed but if your into 3d games like
>>Duke3d,descent2, and quake with others coming shortly 486's just dont cut
>>it no more i mean even if you got a 486 dx5 133 with 16 megs ram it will
>>still play duke3d and others like shit in 640 * 480 mode i suggest all you
>>people with 486's stop bitching about games running slow and go buy a high
>>pentium or 6x86 

See, you say this shit, but what happens when YOUR machine which you think
is hot stuff NOW, becomes obsolete in only a matter of months?  Don't feel
good?  Well, it's the opinion up there that allows the games programmers to
get ridiculously sloppy and not bother programming fast routines but
instead rely on the processors - and the mugs who keep upgrading - to make
their games run at a reasonable rate.

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**  Richard Green  **   EMAIL: Gre...@rikk.demon.co.uk / fdw...@ucl.ac.uk
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Subject: Re: 486's Suck for Duke3d and others 3d games
Date: 1996/04/08
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