40MHz is plenty for doom.
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wagoner@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Realistically, what can you use this for that’s worthwhile?
Cool looking device though.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
shadearg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
40MHz is plenty for doom.
Ew, no. Even 386 DX/40 is terrible for Doom:
Doom timedemo 386 DX 40 MHz DOS PC
486 SX/33 is painful, you really want 486 DX2/66:
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Can confirm. My dad had a 386DX-40 when I got my hands on a copy of Doom, and it was a fucking slideshow at best.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There’s something else going on with that first video. I had a 386sx@25MHz and it wasn’t that slow. Unless that demo has the detail cranked up to high or something like that. Although, like that first commenter I had a math co-processor, so maybe that helped.
shadearg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Are you sure you didn’t set low-detail with the viewport cranked way down? I played it on the same machine with a math co-processor and it could not handle high-detail and the large viewport in the video.
Toes@ani.social 2 weeks ago
You could play Wolfenstein?
But realistically, I could see this being helpful if you maintain a lot of legacy gear and need to drag around something reliable to test with.
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Retro gaming?
555@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You’d get better performance from an emulator running in a raspberry pi inside that case.
veeesix@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
You could relive booting up your computer at breakfast to get it ready to use by lunchtime.
555@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If it doesn’t have that hard drive crunch to remind me it hasn’t locked up than I’m not interested.
Fillicia@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
See for me it’s the “you can now shut down your pc” message so I know I can shut down the uselessly huge toggle on the front of my tower.