On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 03:49:17PM -0500, Michael Langley wrote 450 mhz PIII with 128 megs of RAM. Running Gentoo linux with CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse" The USE flags include mmx and sse. Xboing runs so fast that I had to hack the delay loop to get it playable. Otherwise, I'd never get to touch the balls. The machine is a 1999 Dell that refuses to die. They don't make them like that any more.
1800 mhz P4 with 512 megs of RAM. That's the "heir-apparent" machine. If/when the 450 ever dies, this becomes my main machine. I don't apologize for running older machines. Actually I think, we should get some sort of group effort going to publicize the fact that Blackbox is lightweight. In approximately a year or so, Microsoft's "Long-delayed-horn" is supposed to show up. See my sig for a comment. When people agonize over whether to junk their old computer, and shell out for a brand new monstrosity, we can jump in to "save the day". -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yes, MS Windows does run on mainframes. Have you seen the hardware specs for Longhorn? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html
