While typing at 130 wpm Jonathan Fingas said to Bob Morgan:
JF> I hate the Macarena with a bitter passion!
LOL! It gained infamy even quicker than Barney did. ;)
JF> My guess is that a P90 and 16 MB will be needed. It would make
JF> sense, since that's the requirements for Quake II itself! Of course,
JF> a 3D card (preferrably a 3DFX card) would be very helpful, but you'd
JF> probably want a beefy machine to maximize its efficiency (3D cards
JF> tend to scale improvement with CPU speed).
Duly noted.
BM> Oh, BTW, if you ever want to see D3D in slow motion play from the DOS
BM> shell in Windows. ;) I'm very surprised it didn't crash! :)
JF> Funny, but I've never experienced a slowdown with it, even in demo
JF> mode (when it happens with Shadow Warrior). But then, I have a P120
JF> with 32 MB of RAM, so I better not!
Yeah, in a pinch there's no substitute for horsepower. ;)
Bob
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