CompuServe Messages

Fred, > Yep, your Border's sounds just like ours. I guess it must be a chain. And > they don't even rag on you for reading the books there without buying. I guess they are a chain, it's nice to find someone who believes in service. > I'll upload my PASCAL implementation of the PLANETS algorithm. It's not too > bad, though a bit slow being all in Pascal. Next weekend I'll try to get the > files together that are needed and upload source and .EXE files. I'll look for them, maybe I'll try my hand at some in-line asm to speed things up. > Sorry about the DX being out of reach. How about a 386 motherboard with one > of those Cyrix chips (DLC I think) that make it "sort of" a 486 but without > the copro? You may still get faster speed with 486 emulation of the copro > than a "real" 287 FPU. I dunno, never seen a benchmark. I've thought of the motherboard swap, unfortunately my PC is an AMSTRAD with an unuaual case design. It's actually quite nice, but I don't think it'll take a "clone" motherboard. There are a few '286 CPU upgrades that use the CYRIX SLC chip, or the IBM Blue Lightning (up to 90 MHz) and will let me use my CYRIX FastMath Co-Pro. Several programs (including MSD) detect it as a 387 and it'll run at speeds of up to 20 MHz. I'm still looking into it. > Oh well, one thing I'll say – if you can get a decent frame rate on a 286, > it should really BLAZE on a fast machine! <g> I figure that it'll make me work harder for tighter code, of course my idea of "decent frame rate" is different from yours (I can accept 5-10 fps). I've got a video benchmark program that rates my system a crummy <4 fps (needless to say I don't rate their polygon engine very highly <g>). Jeff