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| 20 NOV 2002 at 6:59pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Er... your Pentium IS an MMX. Every single Pentium processor supports MMX since the P200 or so.
Of course you can play the game. I tried it under Win XP and it ran OK.
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| 20 NOV 2002 at 8:04pm |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Rael (20 NOV 2002 6:58pm)
Every single Pentium processor supports MMX since the P200 or so.
Not quite Pentium existed in MMX versions in speeds from 166MHz up (to 233) but there were also non-MMX versions, at least up to 200MHz. Pentium Pro does not have MMX at all, regardless of speed. Every Pentium II based CPU (ie. PII 233 and above and Celeron) has MMX, as well as all later CPUs.
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| 20 NOV 2002 at 8:14pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
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Status : Offline | "...or so". That means "around" the P200
I don't remember quite well as it was a looong time ago.
True, the Pentium Pro didn't support MMX. I think they reached 233 Mhz., is that right?
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| 20 NOV 2002 at 8:34pm |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Well, my point was that not every 200MHz Pentium is MMX.
Pentium Pro was available in speeds from 150 to 200MHz, although the 200MHz ones weren't too hard to overclock to 233. Especially the models with 512K or 1M L2 cache were very good performers, in some cases better than low end PIIs (because of the huge full speed L2 cache).
We have an old "toy" IBM server with four 200MHz PPro CPUs
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| 20 NOV 2002 at 8:44pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Cache makes a great difference. I remember it was AMD's technique to release processors with as much cache as possible to speed things up. The thing is that it doesn't makes a difference having above 1M of cache (except in high-end servers, I think).
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| 20 NOV 2002 at 9:09pm |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Right, there's a big difference between 128K and 512K, but not between 1M and 2M - except in price
But the cache speed also matters. PIIs had big L2 cached at half the core speed, Celerons had smaller cache running at full speed. In some specific (rare?) cases Celerons were actually faster.
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| 22 NOV 2002 at 8:24am |
| Deleted User | I am gathering a lot of information from you guys.Thanks. I think now I'll try and buy Faust
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| 22 NOV 2002 at 8:43pm |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By sazka (22 NOV 2002 8:24am)
I am gathering a lot of information from you guys.Thanks.
I thought girls weren't interested in this computerese nonsense
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| 22 NOV 2002 at 8:52pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
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Status : Offline | I thought girls weren't interested in this computerese nonsense
Yeah, you're one of a kind, Sazka
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| 24 NOV 2002 at 9:33am |
| Deleted User | Im one of them. It's important because it has to do a lot with the Degree I'm taking now.
Hey Rael and MichalNl!!!! Cograts!!!You guys are forum GoDs!!! i haven't seen who else but I saw yu guys were the first one I saw.
I'm too much into my Final exams and games I can't be in here that often.
I wonder what it is after forum Gods?
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| 24 NOV 2002 at 8:50pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
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Status : Offline | I wonder what it is after forum Gods?
Nothing. We reached the top. We are unique, kings, masters of the Universe and a few planar dimensions. No one compares to us when it comes to adventure games.
Er... what were you talking about?
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| 25 NOV 2002 at 12:00am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By sazka (24 NOV 2002 9:33am)
Hey Rael and MichalN!!!! Congrats!!!You guys are forum GoDs!!! i haven't seen who else but I saw yu guys were the first one I saw.
So far we're the only two and likely to remain that way for a week or two
I'm too much into my Final exams and games I can't be in here that often.
The gods wish you good luck with your exams
I wonder what it is after forum Gods?
Like Rael says, nothing. Unless someone updates the forum software of course
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| 25 NOV 2002 at 3:37am |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
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Status : Offline | The gods wish you good luck with your exams
Just a couple of sacrifices will make the deal
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| 30 NOV 2002 at 8:02am |
| Deleted User | I pray to the "gods" that they will help me get high scores in my final exams
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| 30 NOV 2002 at 8:22am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | We'll do our best
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