looks like fun but fuck having to clean all that up afterward :v:
I fucking love UT99. One of my favourite games of all time
Takes me back to High School.
During art classes, we were encouraged to take our work outside and around the school. So of a bunch of us would go to the computer lab and play CS 1.6. I'm no good at CS, but this was at the begining of CoD's popularity, so everyone else was used to how CoD plays.
I have fond memories of absolutely sweeping the floor with these guys, but I was shy so I never took credit. Someone would yell "FUCK! WHO IS THIS 'FLOUNDER' THAT KEEPS GETTING ME" and I'd never respond. Good times.
Eventually we moved onto UT 99. I would make maps for it in the morning, and then we would all play them during art class. One of my favorites was a racetrack map I made. We would just run around the track and keep track of the laps ourselves. Of course, this led to a lot of lying and cheating. Good good times.
holy fuck imagine the energy bill
[QUOTE=ShimTaco;52075979]holy fuck imagine the energy bill[/QUOTE]
Really, while components have become orders of magnitude more efficient, power envelopes have also increased quite a bit - especially in the GPU department.
I can't get over the fact I threw away my Pentium 2 PC. It would make such a great retro machine now.
If there's one good thing about old hardware is that it can never die but I do not want to go back that's for sure.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;52075999]Really, while components have become orders of magnitude more efficient, power envelopes have also increased quite a bit - especially in the GPU department.[/QUOTE]
CRT's consume lots of power, though. Still, it's not that rare for electricity to be baked into the rent in Sweden
[QUOTE=ShimTaco;52075979]holy fuck imagine the energy bill[/QUOTE]
Imagine the weight.
[QUOTE=shad0w440;52076957]Imagine the weight.[/QUOTE]
How white and pasty nerds got swole back in the day.
its amazing how even on the best hardware of that era you'd struggle to run games like we do with games today. Meanwhile you could use a low end shit box and run ut99 at 8k 144hz with 32AA :v:
Computers back then were really something but damn have we come a long way
[QUOTE=J!NX;52076973]its amazing how even on the best hardware of that era you'd struggle to run games like we do with games today. Meanwhile you could use a low end shit box and run ut99 at 8k 144hz with 32AA :v:
Computers back then were really something but damn have we come a long way[/QUOTE]
And running a piece of software from 1977 on a 1997 machine isn't a big deal either, things have progressed the same way they always have. People will say the same things about Intel 7700K's and AMD 1800X's in 2037.
Playing Battlefield 1 maxed out in 4K@60+FPS with 1080Ti's in SLI will then be a retro experience
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