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Re: Artistic depiction of "Verschlimmbessern"

Posted on 2017-03-17, 14:56

ZoneAlarm, Neoplanet, Viruscan, etc... ...Spotify, Chrome, Firefox, Office. Newer applications are less obvious offenders, but rendering custom UI controls (often to emulate the look of a specific setup) instead of just using the OS defaults is still a surprisingly common practice. Spotify, Firefox …

Re: AMD drops the mic

Posted on 2017-03-09, 18:28

Why is there such a huge flamewar about this? If you're mostly productivity-focused, then Ryzen offers pretty much the best value on the market, but if you're interested mostly in light applications and gaming, then get the much higher clocked Intel parts. Honestly, it's easier to think of the …

Re: Comeback for AMD?

Posted on 2016-07-04, 17:11

I think that the 480 has the potential to be like Chrysler's K platform. Was it the biggest, fastest, or most powerful? No. It was never intended to be. Was it affordable? Yes. Did it offer good enough performance for most use cases? Yes. Was it extremely boring? Abolutely. The entire point of the …

Mobo question

Posted on 2016-03-20, 00:47

Today I scavenged a Gigabyte GA-6VXE7+, and was wondering if anyone has used this board with Tualatin Pentium IIIs. According to their support list: http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/cpu-support-popup.aspx?pid=2410 I can expect to use some sort of Tualatin CPU, but they don't specify cache …

Re: New Amiga machine and new Os/2 release!!! :-P

Posted on 2015-12-03, 00:56

How well do those amiga boards run Linux? If this one is fairly cheap, I might want to get it just for the novelty of having a RISC Linux machine. Their news release shows it running Debian, but I will remain skeptical unless told otherwise. EDIT: Also, why on earth doesn't it have more cores/a …

Re: Most disappointing games?

Posted on 2015-10-30, 00:01

SimCity (the new one) As a fan of the series (especially 2000 and 4), I was really excited for an even bigger and deeper game. The tech demos and videos that were posted gave an interesting look at a city simulation far more involved than I thought possible. The addition of multiplayer was just …

Re: if Intel or AMD decided to make a limited version in 2015 of an oldschool cpu, what would you want to exist?

Posted on 2015-09-22, 18:03

Either a dual core (as two dies a la the Pentium D) Pentium III or Slot A Athlon. The thing that really disappoints me about the transition from cartridges to discrete chips is that cartridges were perfect for dual cores given the technology of the day. Two or more processors could easily fit on …

Re: Any of you on Windows 10?

Posted on 2015-08-22, 04:16

Given that the hype for 10 ranges somewhere between "Utter Miracle" and "Second Coming of Christ", I must say that I was very disappointed when I freshly installed it on a spare hard drive. Back in November, the Windows Technical Preview was awesome! It was basically Windows 8.1, just with a full- …

Found something in the basement today...

Posted on 2015-07-25, 20:55

It's a Dell advert from September 29, 2002. While the price appears to be pretty good ($700 for a complete desktop system), Dell was selling 256 MB of SDRAM as an upgrade with a straight face. Let's take our already slow P4 and combine it with even slower RAM! The laptop, on the other hand, actually …

Re: Programming DOS games

Posted on 2015-06-24, 18:24

I appreciate your enthusiasm for learning to write a game, but as others have suggested, I would recommend that you start small. The first thing you should do is start writing a really basic physics engine. By really basic I mean "Is able to detect collisions and apply acceleration and velocity to …

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