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Article #294Re: Origin - CD-only forever!
From: gme... GM Enierga
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 1994 11:38
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 1994 11:38
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Ni...@tungle.demon.co.uk (Nick Hadlow) writes: >In article <3artkb$2...@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> > gme...@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au "GM Enierga" writes: >> r...@gasco.com (Ron Christian x5545) writes: >> >In article <toma.78...@expert.cc.purdue.edu> to...@expert.cc.purdue.edu >> (Duke Toma) writes: >>> <snip> (Yes, I know that the Pentium >> >chip has better floating point. Name two games that use it.) >> > Ron >> Not to disagree to your post, but the answer to you question is >> "Falcon 3.0" and some (if not all) of the "V for Victory" games. >> - Falcon >Hope they don't fall foul of the Pentium FPU bug . . . Intel are still >keeping quiet about this tho' they apparently _will_ swap your Pentium >if you've got a bad one. >| Nick Hadlow ||"Et semel emissum volat irrevocabile || I hear they will only swap it if you are an academic or student or something where the FPU reliability will hamper YOU severely... Unfortunately I do not think they mean us "game-playing-mortals-who-sometimes-do-work"... I don't know, it's what someone here wrote. - Falcon
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