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doc...@eng.umd.edu (John Sabean) writes:
>In article <39pe45$d...@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>, gme...@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (GM Enierga) writes:
>>j-h...@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (James Hogan) writes:
>>>gme...@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (GM Enierga) writes:
>>>>	We "whine" because the target market not only is small at the moment
>>>>(Pentiums) but also because the products designed for it are for the gurgler

>>>Nearly everyone who's run Armada or the WC3 demo on a 486 has had no 
>>>complaints about the speed.  Origin's target audience is not just people 
>>>with Pentiums.

>>	A 486 DX 33?  I would really be surprised if that was the case.

>Actually, I ran Armada on a 386/40 and aside from a small bit of jerkyness when there
>are a large number of ships on the screen, it ran just fine.
>Since WC3 uses the same engine, with a SVGA mode, I assume that you'd get okay
>performance on a 486/33 as long as it had local bus video. You wouldn't get super duper
>performance, but I can see it working.....

	Wow... if that is true then maybe there is hope after all - assuming
of course that the gameplay is good and that the enemies are not as "dumb" as
they were in Armada.  Can someone tell me how the demo performed on the above
machine (486dx33) with just ordinairy ISA?  And please don't give me "official
fps" figures... but a real point of view of what they thought of the demo (the
playable bit) on the above specs.  Thanks.

								- Falcon