AC97 and Zsnes

theboy_181 · Post by **theboy_181** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 4:12 am

Thats the spirit!!!

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 6:35 am

theboy_181 wrote:Thats the spirit!!!

Yup.
DirectX, once it matured, freed us from all the silly tapdancing around limitations DOS left us doing.
We no longer had to swap config files and reboot to change the extended/expanded memory configuration.
And since the hardware was abstracted, so software didn't access it directly, we could finally choose our preferred hardware instead of just buying Voodoos and Sound Blasters because they were the only things that worked with everything(at least 2D graphics had real standards).

YAY FOR PROGRESS!

Casteele · Post by **Casteele** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:48 am

Kajuru wrote:Off-Topic: Changing resolutions was also a good candidate for crashing. Meh

And this has changed since? (*looks over his shoulder for the fatal BSoD that supposedly should never happen anymore*)..