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BugsJustFindMe • today at 1:50 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

The point is that the thing that OP likes has nothing to do with whether something is rendered in software or hardware.


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the_af • today at 2:37 PM

"Nothing to do" is a bit strong. It has something to do, and the explanation is in the history of how these games worked.

Can it be simulated on GPUs? Sure. But it was typical of software renderers of that era, and NOT typical of GPUs, and it has to do with how they were used.

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