{"id":253,"date":"2010-08-31T23:49:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T22:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/?p=253"},"modified":"2010-10-13T13:00:04","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T12:00:04","slug":"386-or-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/2010\/08\/386-or-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"386 or Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For as long as I can remember, my computer has been on the very edge of technology.\u00a0 It has always been just a few steps away from being obsolete, and I wouldn\u2019t have it any other way.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a lie, I would have it another way and I intend to very soon, but it\u2019s a convenient lie that makes me feel special, or at least that it\u2019s on purpose.<\/p>\n<p>I remember being very excited about the release of \u201cLemmings 2\u201d, not really because it was an amazing game; it wasn\u2019t, they tried to improve the original\u2019s purity by adding in more pointless skills in what was to become my first experience with something suffering from feature creep, but it was a game that would run on the family computer.\u00a0 This was a time where every (very large) game box I picked up had the words \u201crequires a 386 or higher\u201d that disheartened me so much to the point that I believe \u201c386 or higher\u201d became a running joke with my parents because it had become one of those stupid borderline meaningless phrases that I thought might have more meaning than it did.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve always bought and built middle of the range PCs (because to go for the most technologically advanced is a fools errand for anyone that needs their money to eat) and always found myself very quickly having to trick it in to playing certain games, but lately I\u2019ve found a few titles manage to run below the recommended specifications that they list.<\/p>\n<p>What this boils down to is a very roundabout and drop-in-the-ocean love letter to Blizzard and Starcraft 2, which has listed on the back of the box \u201c2.6 GHz or Higher\u201d and yet runs perfectly well (with perfectly meaning all the graphical settings reduced to zero) on my barely-scraping-2.3GHz-if-I-had-the-guts-to-overclock-it-but-last-time-I-tried-something-like-that-there-was-fire-so-closer-to-2.2 machine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Lings-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-256\" title=\"Lings copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Lings-copy-300x104.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Lings-copy-300x104.png 300w, https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Lings-copy-1024x355.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The game itself is fantastic (the description \u201cchess on steroids\u201d is apt), the design is near flawless, the multiplayer is fair and challenging, and the single player storyline has accurately been described as \u201csomething a twelve year old would enjoy\u201d which makes me feel guilty for enjoying it so much, because I suspect they\u2019re right.\u00a0 The fact that Blizzard have spent the time to ensure that it will run smoothly on a machine that is now pushing six years old is unbelievable and a testament to their professionalism.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing that popped into my head when I got Starcraft 2 working however was \u201cI wonder if Sim City 2000 WOULD have worked on the 286 after all and why didn\u2019t I at least try?\u201d.\u00a0 Maybe the lesson here is I should stop believing everything I read. \u00a0Maybe it\u2019s that the more things change the more they stay the same.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s that I ramble about things nobody is interested in when I\u2019m hungry.\u00a0 Regardless, technology is ever evolving, but it\u2019s refreshing to see that not everyone is trying to dismiss everything that\u2019s for the most part considered obsolete.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Lings-smaller.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For as long as I can remember, my computer has been on the very edge of technology.\u00a0 It has always been just a few steps away from being obsolete, and I wouldn\u2019t have it any other way. 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