What will Quake need?

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4 total messages Started by Ravi Tue, 09 Jan 1996 00:00

#2074

Author: Ravi
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 00:00

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I have a 486 dx2 50 with a vl 3d rendering card.  Will this be good
enough for Quake or should I upgrade again?

Re: What will Quake need?

#2075

Author: r... Ruud van Gaal
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 00:00

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In <DKx8B...@news2.new-york.net> Emre Yucel <amo...@bc.cybernex.net> wrote:

>It would be allways a good idea to upgrade though. How about upgrading
>to a Pentium Pro 166 with 32Mb EDO ram and a Wide SCSI 3 Gig hard disk
>+ an SB AWE-32 sound card and 21" monitor and 4 megs of video RAM with
>8x CD-ROM and 512kb of 0ns fast cache and wide CPU to cache to ram bus.
>and with ISDN connection.
>Now... that computer will FLY!!.!..!...!....!.....!......!......

Print this message, and reread it in about 2 years. What a laugh you'll have! 
Just like calling your modem protocal Vfast! Hah, Vslow you mean (already:-)

--
Ruud van Gaal
MarketGraph Visual Automation
E-Mail            : r...@marketgraph.xs4all.nl
DoomShell homepage: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jwkorver
"...Works fascinates me. I could sit and watch it for hours..."

Re: What will Quake need?

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Author: Emre Yucel
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 00:00

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r...@marketgraph.xs4all.nl (Ruud van Gaal) wrote:
>
> In <DKx8B...@news2.new-york.net> Emre Yucel <amo...@bc.cybernex.net> wrote:
> 
> >It would be allways a good idea to upgrade though. How about upgrading
> >to a Pentium Pro 166 with 32Mb EDO ram and a Wide SCSI 3 Gig hard disk
> >+ an SB AWE-32 sound card and 21" monitor and 4 megs of video RAM with
> >8x CD-ROM and 512kb of 0ns fast cache and wide CPU to cache to ram bus.
> >and with ISDN connection.
> >Now... that computer will FLY!!.!..!...!....!.....!......!......
> 
> Print this message, and reread it in about 2 years. What a laugh you'll have! 
> Just like calling your modem protocal Vfast! Hah, Vslow you mean (already:-)
> 
> --
> Ruud van Gaal
> MarketGraph Visual Automation
> E-Mail            : r...@marketgraph.xs4all.nl
> DoomShell homepage: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jwkorver
> "...Works fascinates me. I could sit and watch it for hours..."
> 

Well, no computer will last long. But that's the whole idea. The
technology keeps progressing at an exponential rate. In 5 years,
that computer will be worth ah maybe $300. Although today it's $5000.

Zimmer

Re: What will Quake need?

#2077

Author: I... Khorne the blood god
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 00:00

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 what does quake need? a person NOT like you playing it.

-Khorne (you find me in your shit)

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