Re:Happy 20th Birthday, Quake
by ekekekekekekl on Thursday June 23, 2016 @02:33PM
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I was always super disappointed they didn't use Mode-X by default.
As a result, even though you could set Mode-X explicitly, it wasn't optimized so it went slower than plain 13h and wasn't even page-flipped. So there wasn't a compelling reason to use it, except for the square pixels.
As a result, even though you could set Mode-X explicitly, it wasn't optimized so it went slower than plain 13h and wasn't even page-flipped. So there wasn't a compelling reason to use it, except for the square pixels.