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August 21st, 2004, 12:50 AM
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Re: OOT: Thread Overflow Depository (AKA: The Hija
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Suicide Junkie said:
A new motherboard, and rebuilding your OS probably.
The speed improvement will max out at about +80%, for bigtime number crunching.
Anything that uses the disk will be just as crappy as before, and memory-intensive work will hold you back too.
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Is it worth it for games? Doesn't sound like it. Thanks.
Well, games don't typically hit the disk, or they'd be unplayable on any machine.
Games do quite a bit of number crunching, to calculate vectors for bullets and collision detection, and all that.
It will help, but the graphics card will almost certainly still be your bottleneck.
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Hey SJ, you hit the edit button, not the quote button.  
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August 24th, 2004, 02:17 AM
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Re: OOT: Thread Overflow Depository (AKA: The Hija
The first computer I ever used was a Commodore Pet. It had a small green monochrome screen, and a slow, slow tape drive. The programs were written in BASIC. The very first video game I played was on that Commodore Pet. It was Space Invaders, and the graphics were very blocky. But it was wonderful...
The very first word processor I used was called "Magic Windows" and it ran on the Apple IIE. We inserted control characters before and after sections of text to get formatting like bold and underline. I was so happy with it because a word processor was so superior to an electric typewriter. I learned to type on an IBM electric typewriter...
The very first graphics program I used was Print Shop on the Apple IIE. I used it to make title pages for reports and things. When I think back, I realize just how clunky those graphics were and how slow that program ran, but at the time I thought it was so great.
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August 24th, 2004, 05:29 AM
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Better and better and better graphics...
I just want to be able to say 'Computer, make a free-form RPG game'... 
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August 24th, 2004, 10:12 PM
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Re: OOT: Thread Overflow Depository (AKA: The Hija
We need names for these pretty new emoticons that David made.
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Re: OOT: Thread Overflow Depository (AKA: The Hija
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Better and better and better graphics...
I just want to be able to say 'Computer, make a free-form RPG game'...
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Bah, Humbug!!!
I haven't played an Online RPG Game (i mean an actual published game) in years. Now actual RPG's with friends and sheets of paper and such is where it's at.
Wait No...That doesn't involve a computer...Maybe...we Don't need computers to do...Everything!
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You will be drawn and quartered for even suggesting such a thing. "Don't need computers to do everything". You know better! 
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Re: OOT: Thread Overflow Depository (AKA: The Hija
That's right.
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Ow, sorry Narf.
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Here's a game for everybody and their kids!
http://imagemodserver.mine.nu/nick/games/DOGGIE3.zip
Run around the city, peeing on all the fire hydrants while you try to avoid getting smushed by the cars 
- For 1 or 2 players.
- Requirements: CGA video card, keyboard, 20Mhz or higher reccommended.
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