Cities are not functionally free market. You could have control of layout, zoning, regulations, infrastructure design and allocation, tax incentives, etc.
Not sure how well this would model a real city where the “freehand” is guided by countless individual decisions.
Which one would be harder on the old processors though? Pipes, or the one in which it put a moving magnifying glass or bubbles on an image of the current desktop?
Hmm. Now my memory might be being a bit flaky with Windows 98 vs Windows XP (which was run on a Pentium 4 and that one surely had a onboard GPU on the motherboard), but I remember for sure that if there was a listing in the screensavers dialogue for it, it worked (because I don’t remember any one of that not working).
I do remember seeing the message about voodoo not being available, when I tried to install Desert Storm from a CD, so it definitely didn’t have that (the computer was handed down and I was a kid and didn’t open and see it).
weird take. video games have to have a command economy because they are designed to be played. a free market city builder would just be a screensaver.
Cities are not functionally free market. You could have control of layout, zoning, regulations, infrastructure design and allocation, tax incentives, etc.
Not sure how well this would model a real city where the “freehand” is guided by countless individual decisions.
Definitely won’t be a CPU saver though
fun fact, most old screensavers were super resource-intensive.
Yeah, I remember a few of the Win98 ones.
Which one would be harder on the old processors though? Pipes, or the one in which it put a moving magnifying glass or bubbles on an image of the current desktop?
i think pipes was opengl and swirl was software, so probably the latter
On a Pentium 2 without Voodoo, both would be software
did pipes even work without a graphics driver? i know maze didn’t
Hmm. Now my memory might be being a bit flaky with Windows 98 vs Windows XP (which was run on a Pentium 4 and that one surely had a onboard GPU on the motherboard), but I remember for sure that if there was a listing in the screensavers dialogue for it, it worked (because I don’t remember any one of that not working).
I do remember seeing the message about voodoo not being available, when I tried to install Desert Storm from a CD, so it definitely didn’t have that (the computer was handed down and I was a kid and didn’t open and see it).
Yeah, that’s what I find so amusing.
ok i think i get the joke