Digital Ruckus » game http://digitalruck.us Making waves on the internet... Sat, 28 Aug 2010 03:30:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Classic Gaming on New Hardware http://digitalruck.us/2010/02/06/classic-gaming-on-new-hardware/ http://digitalruck.us/2010/02/06/classic-gaming-on-new-hardware/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:39:01 +0000 jtalaiver http://digitalruck.us/?p=939 I fell further in love with my little netbook when on a whim I broke out Quake II and Driver. The joy of long late nights playing Q2 with my boys over a LAN game suddenly rushed over me. It was epic. Amazing to see that such a small machine just cranked out the video and 3d rendering that Q2 required. Such a perfect example of Moore’s law in effect. The machine I used to play Q2 on needed its own video card and lots of RAM and a great screen. Now all the same requirements can be met by a device that is a little bit bigger than a hardbound book. The same could be said for Driver. I used to have lag and get frustrated cause my computer couldn’t keep up with my speed. Now this little netbook puts me to shame because I am having to keep up. As they continue to cram more and more processing power on such tiny chips I am awaiting the day when I can rock Crysis at full res on a netbook. It’s not too far away.

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Cartridge games sound archaic but bare with me. Solid State Disk (SSD) drives are getting larger and less expensive as time progresses and they provide INSANE data transfer rates. Picture a massive environment that has no “save points” and no loading time between areas. If game developers build on this it will also minimize the chances for piracy due to the difficulty of the hardware.

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