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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Received on Wed Aug 15 2001 - 09:01:23 BST