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The 60mhz Pentium was really just a beefed up 486. I remember it had an enormous (for the time) heat sink fan that eventually wore its bearing out. I also upgraded to a P120, and in fact I still have that board in another machine, waiting on the right vintage parts to get it going again. I just wish I had saved that old Acer case.
I seem to remember some sort of cross-promotion of Pentium and Quake, in one of my old gaming magazines. It was a significant step up from other games of that era, since it featured full rendered 3d enemies instead of sprites. Not sure how many had done that previously. The only one I can think of is Descent.
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[–] SmokeyMeadow ago
The 60mhz Pentium was really just a beefed up 486. I remember it had an enormous (for the time) heat sink fan that eventually wore its bearing out. I also upgraded to a P120, and in fact I still have that board in another machine, waiting on the right vintage parts to get it going again. I just wish I had saved that old Acer case.
[–] voats4goats [S] ago
I think the big thing with the first pentium was a significantly improved floating point performance.
Didnt matter too much when it came out but it definitely made a dent later on when quake first debuted.
That game basically killed off Cyrix chips as those totally blew for floating point operations
[–] SmokeyMeadow ago
I seem to remember some sort of cross-promotion of Pentium and Quake, in one of my old gaming magazines. It was a significant step up from other games of that era, since it featured full rendered 3d enemies instead of sprites. Not sure how many had done that previously. The only one I can think of is Descent.