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Describe technically your PC.
This thread was made for DMOD authors' feedback.
Mine has:
-Intel Celeron@633Mhz
-384 meg SDRAM, of which 32 are for:
-Crappy onboard RIVA TNT2

and an awesome

AMD 386/SX
3200k XMS
MXIC SuperVGA, 1 meg memory

AMD Sempron 1600Mhz
894 MB DDR2 RAM
ATI XPress 1100

And this is a notebook...

480mb RAM (32 shared with onboard graphics)

Intel Centrino 2GHz (dual)
2Gb RAM
GeForce something

Didn't we do this quite recently?

Wow. People still have less than 1 GiB og memory and less than 2 GHz CPU speed? Amusing. You can get a computer with at least 2 GHz for nothing these days.

Yes, we did. It must have been my thread...

You know what's nearly impossible to find? Hard drives with less than a gigabyte of space. Or older. It's a pain in the arse to find any, and worse for any reasonable cost. Sigh.

Sorry, I didn't remember any thread like that...

I have a year old laptop that was already outdated when I bought it, so... yeah. I'll buy a new one somewhere next year so I can run my favourite programs without problems.

@Chrispy:
My computer's secondary HDD has a groovy 341 meg capacity.

MSI Laptop
AMD Sempron 3400+(1.8Ghz)
2GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100

Heward-Packard Company
Intel(I)Celeron(R)(D)CPU 3.46GHz
503 MB

and a whole lot of other crap, that I don't feel like typing.

BTW...it is a Windows Vista Home Basic.

Hm, a good CPU, but not much RAM? How's Vista running?

Intel Celeron 2.4GHz
1024Mb RAM
80Gb HDD
GeForce6600GT 128Mb

and

Intel Pentium233MMX (alive and kicking!)
256Mb RAM
6Gb HDD
S3VirgeGX2 4Mb

Can the second computer run Dink? Maybe that's the answer to BG's question.

Duh, it can.

Duh, anything can.

i'm guessing the minimum requirements would be
16MB RAM
5MB HDD
640x480 VGA card

Chrispy, you could get a 512mb flash drive that will plug into the IDE socket on your motherboard if you're really worried about it...

My work has managed to source a whole bunch of cut-down Compaqs for about NZ$50 each. Couldn't tell you where from though.

And a Pentium 133w/MMX.
Hey, that's for the 'Minimum Specs' thread.

A 5mb HDD?!? ROFL!

Maybe you should take a look at how much space Dink takes up and then make a better guess.

Oh, I don't give a dang about the storage space. I'm more interested in the platters and the magnets. I did the math once, and if you stored lossless music files on some hard drive platters I've salvaged, they would take up more physical space than an equivalent etch on a LP.

Well, I don't know if the original game can be played with requirements that small, but you should be able to run some of the smallest d-mods at the very least.

As well as how much space Win95 takes.

A 486? Maybe. A 386? Doubtful. A 286 and older? No.

Error:
Please redirect all your min specs discussion here.

I vote for these two threads to be merged.

The graphics and sound take up the most space though, not the scripts of the original game. So you'd only be able to play a tiny alternative Dmod if it has its own tiny graphics, sounds (or no sound) etcetera.

Another interesting quesion would be: could Dink Smallwood run on an N64? A PS1? A SNES, perhaps?

No. The hardware on those machines is way different, plus they can't run the OSes that Dink works on. You'd have to completely recode Dink for these machines specifically.

I think he was asking whether that would be possible or not GIVEN that you actually do those modifications, though. I'm sure he's not so dense that he thought a PC game would run without any change on, say, a SNES.

I don't know about N64 and PS1, but SNES has WAY too little memory and WAY too slow CPU to handle Dink's graphics, and dinking with 320x240 would be..kinda...difficult.

You mean 500 something by 400 something. SNES has a weird resolution.

Haven't checked it out yet...

The Vista is working fine. TY for asking DaVince...

Hmm, on the topic of computers and Vista brought Midrosoft to my mind. And Microsoft brought Bill Gates to my mind, and I thought, wouldn't it be funny if Bill Gates was caught using Linux? I could imagine his bodyguard -

"Mr Gates, you're under arrest for using an offensive OS. Please come with me."

what if he was caught using macs?

Linux would be worse.

Intel Celerons are the worst processor I know of, Core Duos hardly do anything unless you have some new multimedia software, Vista uses up 1Gb more ram than XP, I have some 500mbish hard drives and have found some 8mb ram sticks in the past...thankyou

Core Duos hardly do anything unless you have some new multimedia software
Not really. You'll have one processor free when one non-multicore program is entirely using one of the processor, making the system much more responsive and you're able to run twice as many process intensive programs because it'll use the other core (well, I think, anyway?).

I think it works well with multiple programs just not single intensive ones making it good for work and not so good for gaming.

To make it simple, Windows uses the one core for all background stuff, and the second one for running Dink and just Dink.

no wonder my comp sucks... i have an intel celeron 1.70GHz in my comp

it sucks because i make games and they take up over 80% of that processing power (it has a huge playfield, which i guess is why, but it hasn't got much in that game, so by the time i'm finished i will have a game running slower than Tal after a days work of updating talporn.com (on his own))

Er, yes, nobody cares. And your attempt at humor is futile at best.

I've been wondering this for a while now, Phoenix... Are you a borg of somekind?

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