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11 Oct 2024 13:17:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: RIP Gary Gygax  
From: Warp
Date: 8 Mar 2008 15:34:48
Message: <47d2f868@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> 1. At the time, Doom was reputed to require insanely expensive high-end 
> hardware to run usably.

  That would be a 486, yes. It worked in a 386, but 486 was recommended.

> 4. It was slow as hell!

  With current computers you could run Doom at 1600x1200 in the original
software rendering mode without problems (assuming it would support those
resolutions, which it doesn't, at least not without heavy modifications
of the source code, AFAIK).

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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