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Re: The Joy of MMX

I disagree that MMX was a "scam", In case of gaming it totally was. Intel repeated this trick when introducing P3 with SSE. Intel paid Rage Software to develop "demo" for Comdex fall'99 and pretend its an upcoming game, demo showcasing how great SSE is. That one non public demo, Disptched, was used …

Re: The Joy of MMX

MMX as a Matrix Math eXtension was useful for all sorts of DSP applications, ... dial-up modems in software, for video decoding, Mandelbrot generators, audio effects for soundcards etc. Yes, It was best used as audio dsp. On games front we got 1997 Ubisoft POD with a huge "Designed for Intel MMX" …

Re: The Joy of MMX

pentium MMX was intel's attempt to sell the p5 architecture for another year with overhyped MMX marketing agreed, MMX was useless, additional cache was doing all the work tillamook is interesting but did people actually use them in desktop systems back in the day? https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic. …

Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Also I still have to make Ken Silverman's ideas to work (https://github.com/viti95/FastDoom/issues/143), so any help with this would be awesome. >Do aligned 32-bit writes to video memory. Easy for ceilings. Yes it's possible for walls (which are rendered in the vertical direction) too! The trick is …

Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

BTW this executable includes a new configurable option, now it's possible to use render code for each CPU architecture. This allows for more performance on the selected CPU. The available command lines are: Fantastic! Is this automatically detecting CPU and only being overridden by command line? or …

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