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Post by Doomer Boards on Oct 21, 2024 13:16:00 GMT -5
A youtuber called xdeej takes us back in time for a short history lesson, giving a pretty solid and concise summary of Doom's reputation to "run on everything" and how the game's development led to that outcome being possible.
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Post by Doomer Boards on Oct 21, 2024 13:16:03 GMT -5
The video can be seen here:
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Post by ketmar on Oct 21, 2024 19:00:50 GMT -5
i haven't watched the video yet, but i guess this what happens when:
1. people LOVE the game.
2. people got the source code.
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Post by optimus on Oct 22, 2024 4:37:48 GMT -5
3. Everything, even your fridge, has a CPU faster than a 386. However that means it doesn't run as a port on everything before that. People have tried to mimic/not port on a Vic20 or zx spectrum. It's possible to make a recreation with a reduced engine.
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Post by hex11 on Oct 24, 2024 12:59:49 GMT -5
> Vic20 or zx spectrum Those computers can barely run Freescape engine games at low resolution and terrible framerate. At best those systems can handle some low detail flight simulators with very sparse wireframe graphics. I spent a lot of time with Fighter Pilot (Digital Integrations) back in the day, and enjoyed it, but it's nothing whatsoever like Doom. This is the game for those who aren't familiar: www.cpcgamereviews.com/review/2356/Even a 7 MHz 68000 Amiga can't run Doom properly, and a stock A1200 can't do much better (they made some Doom "clones" for it, but they're much closer to Wolf3D...) In fact, even Sega 32X and Atari Jaguar don't run the full game, they had to cut some things out. But here it's close enough to call it Doom. The other stuff just doesn't cut it. |
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Post by optimus on Oct 30, 2024 7:45:40 GMT -5
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