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Former MS engineer Dave Plummer admits he accidentally coded Pinball to run 'at like, 5,000 frames per second' on Windows NT (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The bug was fixed by another ex-Microsoft engineer, Raymond Chen. Speaking on Plummer's other YouTube channel, Dave's Garage, Chen fondly remembers adding a frame rate limiter, thereby reigning the game in to a 100 fps maximum.

And now that we have monitors running at over 100 Hz, that's too low...

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 months ago

now

I am pretty sure CRTs could easily get over 100Hz depending on resolution.

Someone even got 700Hz, although at just 120p on an old CRT