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Quick Enough?
by David Crowson at 12:25 21/08/04 (Blogs::Dave)
I think the two games machines I've now got are adequate

music_box is a laptop and GameBomb is a PC. :)

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bombholio
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Quick Enough? David Crowson - 12:25 21/08/04
Re: Quick Enough? Gordon Hundley - 18:08 23/08/04
What did you buy? Oh, and that - I haven't run S@h for a long time, so I don't know how quick anything more modern than a PPC 604 is. I'd like to try one of these with 64bit Linux.
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Re: Quick Enough? David Crowson - 18:43 23/08/04
I nearly went for the AMD64, but ended up getting a P4 3Ghz, with 2Gb RAM (50ukp per half GB) and a kick-ass graphics card...seems to do the trick....

So, you gonna rejoin the team then ?

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Re: Quick Enough? Gordon Hundley - 21:39 23/08/04
What was the graphics card?

I'll rejoin the team once I've reset my Demon password, so I can reset my S@h password, etc.
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Re: Quick Enough? David Crowson - 23:59 23/08/04
radeon 9200 w. 256mb

There's better , but not without much more money.

Here' the full spec (it's the one on the left but with an extra 1.5Gb and a 17" TFT)

and bought less than a 1000 yards away from where you used to live :)

I would have got one these AMD jobbies, but they were out of stock and I'm impatient ;-p
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Re: Quick Enough? David Crowson - 12:03 24/08/04
but the BBC run their weather systems on a slightly better spec games machine. No wonder the weathers always wrong, I bet their techies are using them for Doom 3 ;-p

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Re: Quick Enough? Bruce Ure - 18:22 24/08/04
The current system takes between three and four hours to generate the graphics for a one minute, thirty-second broadcast.
Splutter!

Are they using ZX81s then?

:bu:

Re: Quick Enough? Gordon Hundley - 22:37 24/08/04
Am I remembering an older dynamic weather map? It didn't look like something I'd use Maya or Lightwave for last time I saw it.
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