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New Win 95 Benchmark

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First post, by mwdmeyer

Posted on 2026-04-23, 06:34

mwdmeyer Offline

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I've always wanted to benchmark Starcraft 1 to compare Pentium vs Cyrix CPUs.

I decided to throw Claude Code at the job and it has written me a little command line Win 95 benchmark tool that should replicate Starcraft/RTS style logic paths.

I haven't been able to run on my retro machines yet but it works great on my Win 11 PC.

I've love if you could try and give it a run. I will do more tweaks and plan to release source code later. Just run from your Win95 command line.

1StarRTS Bench v0.1 - StarCraft-profile CPU benchmark for Socket 7
2==================================================================
3CPU:      AMD family 15 model 1
4Vendor:   AuthenticAMD   family 15  model 1  stepping 2
5Features: CPUID TSC MMX
6
7Running kernels (best of 3 passes):
8  pathfinding         16.8 ms   checksum 0x0000a3d5
9  sprite-mmx           2.3 ms   checksum 0x00049f7c
10  fixed-math          16.7 ms   checksum 0x00223612
11  fog-of-war          31.0 ms   checksum 0x0005a142
12
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14  StarScore: 380424   (Intel Pentium 200 MHz = 1000)
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