15 Aug
2001
15 Aug
'01
2:01 a.m.
Rob Lion skrev:
My understanding is that, at one point at least, it was
indeed about
optimizing assembly loops, especially on Commodores and machines of that
era... I've even read about people using disk controllers as coprocessors
and disabling video interrupts and all kinds of crazy things. I think the
"scene" has pretty much died down in the US, and most of the current stuff
comes out of (Eastern?) Europe. There are some interesting websites out
there (which I can't remember at the moment) with downloads of stuff that
claims to make full use of Pentium IIIs, even, but most of it seems to use
junk like DirectX.
I saw some PC demos last week, or closer to the truth, I didn't. They wouldn't
run on the poor, oh-so-slow 300 MHz machines we tried them on. And they all
seemed to make good use of Microsoft Activesomethingorother routines.
Even the scene isn't what it used to be. =/
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