On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 04:28:45PM +0200, Eric Auer wrote: > Of course there might be a few games which do use > acceleration features of the card, but for my first > PCI card, it was only the game which came bundled > with it :-)
It actually depends on requirements; to me for most cases that (long gone) ISA Tseng would be "fast enough" - while I agree most probably I could have faster graphics using cheap Riva 128 on PCI/AGP (if I had such kind of slots in that 386 machine). Still for most "use cases" of DOS ISA will do. When having high requirements regarding efficiency of graphics system one has to use modern Windows-based system fitted with expensive NVidia accelerator, for instance. Which DOS system can beat it? When using DOS, I simply don't insist on having that many texels per second so much, you know. ;) Even more: it became kind of art to squeeze out of that old gear the things that seemed impossible "back in the day": https://trixter.oldskool.org/2014/06/20/8088-domination-post-mortem-conclusion/ -- regards, Zbigniew _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
