Re: [gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 04/10/2013 22:53, Bruce Hill wrote:
>> Almost ever awesome performance gain in the last 10 years at least that
>> > you see in commercial products were driven in whole or in part by the
>> > primary high performance market - gamers.
>> > 
>> > Personally, I don't like games much and don't play them much. OK, I
>> > don't play them at all. But the market they make up - that's different.
>> > Those egg-heads are very important
> See previous reply in thread to James. This one was not threaded, but rather,
> a reply to the OP, so it makes it look as if you haven't read the thread.
> 
> I played one computer game one day in 1990. Lost that entire day to that
> stupid game, and never played again. Except...one time for a few hours with a
> new friend the second year living in China. He wanted me to play NFS. After
> playing a few races with him, I explained that we do this with _real_cars_ on
> _real_roads_ in _real_life_ "back in America". It developed from the days of
> moonshining, and your car (and you as a driver) weren't anything if you
> couldn't outrun the local cops. ;)
> 
> My gaming yawn was a poor, and needless, expression of disgust.


The last two games I played with any seriousness were Leisure Suit Larry
and TombRaider.... that was back in the days when interactive games with
decent graphics were still new-ish

My kids OTOH, they have umbilical feeds to the XBox.
And like you, Dad prefers racing real cars and real bikes



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Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com