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pbohun ◴[] No.45664365[source]
What's cool about this is that computers are so fast that you could probably make a decent 2D game using only this software-rendered OpenGL 1.1 library.
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bob1029 ◴[] No.45666200[source]
We had software rendered unreal tournament decades ago. Full 3d. It runs like a champ in 2023:

https://youtu.be/MGZQAH5J1OQ

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1. dmpk2k ◴[] No.45667076[source]
Imagine what it could do with modern SIMD and many cores. Won't come close to dGPU, but still...
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2. klaussilveira ◴[] No.45670896[source]
Currently attempting to do that with original q1: https://github.com/klaussilveira/exp-quake/commit/c9b7cab515...
3. NekkoDroid ◴[] No.45673331[source]
Just run it on an EPYC 9965 and you have a not insignificant amount of cores for parallel computing.