philscomputerlab wrote: Great list! Interesting with Dagger of Amon Ra, I always though it was a General MIDI game. Must play it again one day 😀 Yup, it's composed for GM but supports MT-32. The cut-off seems to have been around 1990-1991 with PQ3, Conquests of the Longbow, etc. Play 'em all, I say …

From what I understand, the Netburst architecture was inefficient due to it's long staged pipelines witch, while it allowed for high clock rates caused severe branch miss prediction - up to 33% more than a Pentium III running at the same frequency. You can find more details on the Netburst …

This might be an interesting topic for a video. A face off PIII vs P4 at 1.4 GHz :) One problem is however chipset and memory. 865 and DDR is quite new. SDRAM boards will likely perform worse, and I've never played around with RAMBUS, but that should be quite fast. Yes and no re: RAMBUS. Bandwidth …

Did anything ever use them? :D Also Athlon had also some istructions more didnt it? Yeah as said the Athlon also has integer SSE. The + chips have just 5 new "DSP" oriented instructions. I think DVD software uses them. To what benefit I have no idea. DSP oriented also makes me think of software …

The original Pi is rather weak. I know it can't run Munt for the life of it (I tried to make a little portable MIDI module with an USB MIDI interface) even when OCed to 1GHz. The Pi2 does manage to run it... but with really high CPU usage even when OCed. I've seen topics with people saying Munt …