The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to RetroGaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoI rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square102fedilinkarrow-up1851arrow-down110
arrow-up1841arrow-down1imageI rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home.lemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to RetroGaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square102fedilink
minus-squareAlbbi@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·3 days agoThe character sprites were 16x24 in combat, so a whole 384 pixels to work with!
minus-squareKlear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 days agoA 386 could handle that easily and still have two pixels left.
minus-squareAlbbi@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 days agoGonna make good use of those 33Mhz! Sometimes I forget that CPU clock speeds were talked about in Mhz instead of Ghz.
minus-squareAltima NEO@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoAnd not even hundreds of MHz till the 90s.
minus-squareAlbbi@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoI still remember swapping out my 486 SX 33Mhz with a 486 DX 100! I could finally play Duke Nukem 3D properly. Some areas got down to a frame every 2 seconds with the old processor.
minus-squareKlear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoI couldn’t even launch Duke on my 386, so I only played Doom with viewport shrunk to almost the smallest size. It ran pretty well like that.
The character sprites were 16x24 in combat, so a whole 384 pixels to work with!
A 386 could handle that easily and still have two pixels left.
Gonna make good use of those 33Mhz!
Sometimes I forget that CPU clock speeds were talked about in Mhz instead of Ghz.
And not even hundreds of MHz till the 90s.
I still remember swapping out my 486 SX 33Mhz with a 486 DX 100! I could finally play Duke Nukem 3D properly. Some areas got down to a frame every 2 seconds with the old processor.
I couldn’t even launch Duke on my 386, so I only played Doom with viewport shrunk to almost the smallest size. It ran pretty well like that.