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Narishma
4,001karma·2,385submissions·April 7, 2013
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It doesn't matter that the PS4 will come out soon, there's still plenty of demand for the PS3, and Sony will continue to sell and support it with games for years.
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KH3 will be available on both consoles.
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Indeed, and you also get a bunch of neat stuff when you subscribe to PS+ like free games and discounts. You also don't need it for all games, F2P games for example are exempted from it at the dis…
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Your current gen numbers are a bit old. PS3 is now in second place (barely, 77.6 million units vs 77.5M for Xbox 360).
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You'll have to combine Wine with qemu or something because the Pi doesn't have an x86 CPU.
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Agreed. It's unfortunate that it isn't being developed anymore.
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No, you don't. H264 can be decoded on the hardware out of the box. The licenses are only for MPEG-2 and VC1.
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The RPi does come with licenses for some proprietary codecs, namely MPEG-4 Part 10 (H264) and MPEG-4 Part 2 (DivX, Xvid and the like), mostly because they're cheap and their use widespread. The extra …
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Wolf 3D was written in C for the most part.
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You mean developers, right? Compiler auto-vectorization hasn't really advanced that much. You still need to manually use SIMD intrinsics (or inline asm) to get any kind of worthwhile performance incre…
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I would like it more if it was a true console with no yearly refreshes.
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AMD currently uses DDR3 for their APUs but the next generation will support DDR3 or GDDR5. The PS4 for example uses an APU with GDDR5 memory.
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What do you mean by "later day"? Amiga demos are still being produced to this day.
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DirectX on the Xbox 360 is very lightweight and exposes a lot more of the hardware than what you get on Windows.
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Well, it's not exactly what you want, but there's this site about how to do old school effects in software on a modern PC. http://insolitdust.sourceforge.net/code.html …