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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The character sprites were 16x24 in combat, so a whole 384 pixels to work with!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A 386 could handle that easily and still have two pixels left.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gonna make good use of those 33Mhz!

Sometimes I forget that CPU clock speeds were talked about in Mhz instead of Ghz.

[–] altima_neo 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And not even hundreds of MHz till the 90s.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

I still remember swapping out my 486 SX 33Mhz with a 486 DX 100! I could finally play Duke Nukem 3D properly. Some areas got down to a frame every 2 seconds with the old processor.