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I'm so thoroughly impressed with the speed!
by photoGrant 4y ago
I'm so thoroughly impressed with the speed!
- justapassenger 4y agoSerious question - why? Quake 1 is 25 years old game. It ran good on first Pentium. Apple Watch CPU is much more powerful. I’m not saying it’s not cool. But it should be fast.
- photoGrant 4y agoI suppose because I've seen my Apple Watch struggle with the most basic of things. Like displaying a text message, or scrolling through a full set of apps. It's never felt like a speedy device, and seeing something render so smoothly like this gave a contrast to how I usually feel. That help?
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- nsxwolf 4y agoThe first gen watch was very much like the first gen iPhone - a cool tech demo on underpowered hardware. It was supported far too long, and with its final updates it was barely suitable as a timepiece. It couldn’t handle the most basic of tasks, like receiving messages or playing MP3s on your AirPods.
- pjmlp 4y agoThat is quite surprising given that a Pentium 166MHz had zero issues playing mp3s in winamp, 1998 hardware.
- pdntspa 4y agoHell you could play mp3s on a 486 if you put winamp's decoder in half quality
- pjmlp 4y agoMaybe, except Pentiums were the current generation when winamp came into the scene, hence why I made a mention to it.
- intelVISA 4y ago1998 hardware meets 2022 code
- pjmlp 4y agoAt least watchOS doesn't run Electron.
- justapassenger 4y agoYet
- muterad_murilax 4y agoMore like 1995 hardware.
- pjmlp 4y agoCould be, the date I mentioned is when I could afford buying a P166, and I didn't bother to check the interwebs for the release date, now I have gone and found it, depending on the exact variation from P5 or P6, it could have been released between 1995 and 1997. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium#Pentium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium#Pentium
- samatman 4y agoDid it have a five gram battery?
- pjmlp 4y agoHow do you think it would keep BIOS settings stored in RAM between power cycles?
- Ptchd 4y agoA game similar to Quake coded in a modern high level language would probably be too slow on that watch.
- beebeepka 4y agoIndeed. Currently playing Prodeus which is made by a couple of people using unity. Runs with about ~100 FPS whereas Doom Eternal hits about twice as that while looking much, much better. In fact, there's a recent game called HOAT or something. Built by a single guy using the Quake engine. Had to return it because it was running with 30fps on my machine.
- Narishma 4y agoIt's not using the Quake engine, or it wouldn't be running at 30 fps on current hardware. It's probably Unity or something more modern and bloated.
- Pulcinella 4y agoIf the parent comment meant HROT, it’s using a custom engine written in Pascal.
- beebeepka 4y agoYeah, that's the one. Custom engine in Pascal. Now, where did I get this Quake engine idea from. Thanks anyway
- newsclues 4y agoBecause the source code was published years ago, giving more life to the game. This is the power of Open Source.