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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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[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Lots of games were like this way back in the day. I remember my dad has a 286 and had a DOS game called Deathtrack. You're in a car with guns and you shoot other cars. First person view. "3D"ish where everything was just a wireframe polygon.

Ran fine in the 286. Then we got a 386 and it was totally unplayable because the moment the race started you had already crashed. It didn't run 2x faster, it ran like 50x faster which was impossible to adapt to. The frame rate was governed only by the speed of the CPU. Wild shit.

[–] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the old turbo mode button was needed to fix.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

"I need my car to have a turbo"

chops off 2 cylinders

"thanks bro runs so much better now"

TURBO MODE

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