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Penny Arcade - Comic - Parity
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Parity
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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We also kind of underestimate how much more processing power is available to us compared to ~30 years ago. I probably have more FLOPS available to me in my flat than the NSA did then.
EDIT: Maybe it wasn't official after all, but it looks like somebody did it.
That sounds un-Carmackian enough that I'd be interested in seeing a citation.
That's a bit different to me. First, it's not saying it would have run better than the PC version, just better than the PS version. Second, the port was rushed, which doesn't produce good software no matter what. Third, it sounds like he didn't like the sacrifices it made in visuals to achieve the higher frame rate. (I also found a twitter quote from Carmack saying "I hated affine texture swim and integral quad verts, but in hindsight, I probably should have let experiment.") Finally, "we're going to use a custom engine instead of the standard one" is something that can go sideways quite quickly. Especially if the port was being rushed anyway. It could have well gone much worse, or never come out at all.
Definitely a different narrative than "John Carmack's ego wouldn't let someone else create something better than he could." Guy is usually incredibly helpful and seems to just want things to be as good as possible. He's often going to bat for programmers and users against what the corporation says. He's the one guy at Faceboculus that will actually drop the bullshit and say things that makes the suits unhappy.
It was on SNES
and now TI-83
you likely have it in your pocket, nevermind your flat. The ISS still substantially runs on i386 chips.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
edit: I know that screenshot doesn't wow, it really looks much cooler in motion.
I mean, heck, it's DOOM. You can grab a 15 year old laptop, connect an HDMI cable to your TV and hook up a bluetooth controller; if Steam is installed you press the Home Button and you're in a console UI. You don't even need a dedicated PC under the TV for old games like this.