Mithloraite wrote:
Wiki sais P-100 was released in March 1994.
That's a mystery how this Blackthorne game released in December can be "incompatible" with it.
Or P-90.
Remember that things moved a lot slower back then. In my part of the world 486's were being sold well until the end of 1996.
Intel's flagship product line was always exotic and expensive and the Pentium was no different. Thanks to increased competition from AMD and other companies like Cyrix, IDT etc this is nowhere near as bad as it used to be.
Remember that the 486 was released in 1989 but the 386 was the system of choice for many home users for another 3-4 years purely because it was much better value for money.
So, at the time of the games release, testing on hardware that very few customers had was probably not high on their list of priorities.
Indeed, Rise of the Triad was released in early 1995 and if you minimise the screen all the way down it advises the user to 'get a 486 😀'
swaaye wrote:Cybermage, like lots of those late DOS games, has various video modes. Most SVGA games ran nowhere near 60fps on Pentium 1 hardware. People didn't really notice or care much back then. I sure didn't.
System Shock 1 was another game like that, it had an SVGA mode but was pretty much unplayable in that mode on my 486 machine, until I upgraded about 4 years later.
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