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"Remember Doom? I love that game, but is there any way we could make it less... well... efficient?"
by taneq 6y ago
"Remember Doom? I love that game, but is there any way we could make it less... well... efficient?"
- TeMPOraL 6y agoHow to define an arbitrary thing as a computing platform: - Get a Hello World running on it. Proves it can compute. - Write Snake or Asteroids for it. Proves it can be used as a computer. Alternative for web & mobile developers: write a TODO app for it. - Port Doom to it. Proves it can do much more, and much faster, than what people are using it for.
- SketchySeaBeast 6y ago"You know what I was thinking runs too fast these days? Doom. Let's get that puppy back to the 486 days." I assume that was the same conversation that caused people to release a 100% Ray Traced Quake 2.
- cpach 6y agoCool! Hadn’t heard of that before. Here’s a link for the curios: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3398919/quake-ii-rtx-on-a-geforce-rtx-2080-ti-card-ray-tracing-performance.html https://www.pcworld.com/article/3398919/quake-ii-rtx-on-a-ge...