Originally posted by Unregistered This is to counterbalance all the complaints and whining.

Oh, darn. I saw the thread and thought maybe Paul had come up with some kind of long dissertation on the properties of rocks within GliDOS.

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Long day.

... (why in hell did they put it there in '96, when we all had 486s?)

*heh* Actually, it required a Pentium. They even said that running it on a 486 was possible, but useless.

And the sound, my heavens. I just got out of theMines and into the hatchery, and there's this throbbing heartbeat that reverberates right down to my toes - was never there before. It's just wild.

*heh* Sounds like your old PC was missing it's CD audio cable.

Hats off to GLIDOS!

Yes, Paul certainly pulled off something. AFAIK, nobody else is even attempting this sort of thing.

It is really nice to hear the positive side from time to time. Much appreciated.

Well, actually, the first PC I played TR on was a Cyrix 6486, OC'd to 133mhz. It had a 2mb video card, that ran in the old kind of slot, before PCI, I forget what it's called.It played slow but smooth, and the graphics were good enough to blow my mind at the time.

Originally posted by Unregistered Well, actually, the first PC I played TR on was a Cyrix 6486, OC'd to 133mhz. ...It played slow but smooth, and the graphics were good enough to blow my mind at the time.

*heh* That's kind of like me playing the demo of "Destruction Derby 2" on my old 486-DX4-100. The demo refused to run if it didn't see a Pentium, so I removed the processor check from the BAT file and it ran.

Of course, looking back now, I see why they said that it needed a Pentium. The only reason I accepted that poor performance at the time was because I had no other options.