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Yeah, the game came out well after the launch of the Pentium. Any claim it was authored for the 386 is entirely false. They may be referring to a previous SCUMM
by kevingadd 12y ago
Yeah, the game came out well after the launch of the Pentium. Any claim it was authored for the 386 is entirely false. They may be referring to a previous SCUMM/GRIMe game, perhaps?
(Disclosure: I've seen the game's source code)
- dottrap 12y agoOr maybe they mean (or misinterpret) it was written directly with 386 features in mind (like Doom...remember DOS extenders and protected mode?), not available on the 286 or 8088? A lot of companies were conservative at abandoning older processors. But I don't remember these games being blazingly fast at all, even on Pentiums. Timing bugs did start appearing for some games (Sierra's Quest For Glory 4 is one of the most infamous ones for timing bugs in my head), but I thought these surfaced at least another generation or two later.