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Running Llama on Windows 98
- theandrewbailey 2y ago> Getting modern code to compile for Windows 98 was tricky. We first tried mingw, which supposedly could compile modern C++ for Windows 98/Pentium II. That turned into a dead end - possibly due to CMOV instructions that aren't supported pre-Pentium Pro. How? Pentium 2 is not a pre-Pentium Pro CPU. Pentium 2 is the direct successor to Pentium Pro. Or does Windows 98 not support CMOV?
- brudgers 2y agoMy guess is the latter. The Pentium Pro was not heavily marketed to mainstream consumers...and to support my recollection, wikipedia says this: Despite being advanced for the time, the Pentium Pro's out-of-order register renaming architecture had trouble running 16-bit code and mixed code (8-bit with 16-bit (8/16), or 16-bit with 32-bit (16/32), as using partial registers cause frequent pipeline flushing.[8] At the time it came out in 1995, a 486/DX2 was still an upper spec for a consumer machine and a Pentium was high end.