Official PC Thread

[bVork]

What did Apple use before PPC? Whatever it is probably is in the IIgs in my parents' basement!

Macs used the 68k but the IIGS used a 65C816 - the same CPU as the SNES.

[gamevet]

Well, if AMD was sparking some sort of fight in terms of performance or efficiency it would be great but they're not. They've been useless ever since Athlon64. So at this point I don't know why we need AMD producing x86 CPUs.

Their Phenom II processors were competitive with the C2Q and Bloomfield CPUs; They offered pretty good bang for the buck. The FX lineup was pretty bad though. I'm pretty sure that Intel would jack up their prices if they had no competition at all on the desktop front. AMD may crumble without the lawsuit, if their 2016 CPU fails to make any headway.

It's not like Intel isn't trying. They just hit a wall. Skylake and Broadwell were both underwhelming. They're competing against ARM (mostly Apple, because they have the best chips) but are getting their ass kicked. What is the mobile market is also getting really blurry. The A9X is comparable in a lot of ways to the CPU in the Surface Pro 4. The performance is getting really close and/or even better. Apple has switched architectures twice in their existence, what's stopping them from switching to ARM at some point?

It might replace Apples own A processors for their ipad, but they aren't quite up to par with Intel's laptop i5 and i7 processors, though their graphics hardware is pretty solid. Arm has a long ways to go before it touches the performance of Intel's flagship desktop CPUs.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/...tel-cowen-says

[Diff-chan]

It might replace Apples own A processors for their ipad, but they aren't quite up to par with Intel's laptop i5 and i7 processors, though their graphics hardware is pretty solid.

I don't think anyone saw Apple's CPUs getting so fast so quickly though. It may not be up to par yet but in 2 or 3 years? Very possible.

[ChaoofNee]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/412380

Legend, an SNES beat-em-up apparently, is on Steam for $5.

Hm.

[Chux]

Also looks like Jim Power is on there too.
http://retroism.com/jim-power-the-lost-dimension/

This Piko dude was a repro guy on NA, I wonder if he made enough money and is buying licenses from dead properties.

[MechDeus]

Quoting from the Legend community page:

Arcade Zone is now Hyperdevbox. But they concentrate in the mobile market in Japan. If we were just releasing illegal roms here; I'd probably go with larger games RPGs from Squareenix or something.

That is why we have very specific games from small third party developers from back in the day; because they were the ones that we were able to buy out.

And we have more games coming.

Seems so.

[NeoZeedeater]

Jade Empire's free on Origin right now.

[gamevet]

I still haven't played the copy of Jade Empire I've had forever on the original Xbox. I might check it out on the PC in the living room.

[NeoZeedeater]

It's no longer showing up as free. When I posted that, it was labeled as free but I got an error message to try again later when I went to download it. Sorry, I spoke too soon. And EA fucked up.

[MechDeus]

Lightning Returns is finally coming to PC December 10th, eliminating that awkward two out of three games being available. Guess I'll be finally marathoning these in the next couple months, since I stopped partway into 2 on PS3 to wait for the whole trilogy on PC.