Comment on Pocket 386 is a mini laptop for retro computing with support for DOS and Windows 95 - Liliputing

• shadearg@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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:

  Doom Timedemo - 486DX2/66MHz

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  • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • shadearg@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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      • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think the detail level made a pretty big difference. I definitely ran it in low and kind of forgot that high was an option, but the shotgun animation in that video is bringing up some traumatic memories.

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