Panic Demo by Future Crew

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Panic Demo by Future Crew

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[jphuuskon]

Probably a 486 or first generation pentium. It's nigh impossible to get these running outside DOS.

Or maybe a new computer running it in DOSBox.

[SuperClr]

Yeah its Dosbox not sure why it plays up, and dont know how to work around it without installing dos =/

[tapewolf]

Out of interest, what system was this running on? It seems to be chugging at the 'fractal jelly' part, and it's definitely not happy at the end...

[SuperClr]

Yeah its Dosbox not sure why it plays up, and dont know how to work around it without installing dos =/

[hhhhh81]

@jaymzjulian ctrl+f12 in dosbox

[philipsuper]

@tapewolf this is running on DOSBOX. i recognise the errors

[philipsuper]

i think the fractals are precalculated in the demo. i cant see that this can be so fast if it ineed to render all the fractal again and again.

[leerees]

The demo ran fine on my 386sx33, although the fractals were jerky

[leerees]

I had a 386sx 33mhz and recall getting the same speed on the fractals Surely on a modern PC even with a dos box it should zip through those fractals..

[matju2]

hmm, are you super sure that it wasn't a 486DX ?...

at the same clock speed of 25 MHz, you could get a 386SX, 386DX, 486SX or 486DX, which would all run at different speeds from each other, except that many programs ran at the same speed on 486DX as on the 486SX; however, when they didn't, then the 486DX was usually EXTREMELY better.

afaik, a 486SX-25 was usually about the same speed as a 386DX-50, which wasn't *so* much different from a 386DX-40.

[SkuldChan42]

486 back then ran the fractal part smoothly (386 conversely had a hard time with that). Also a real pc wouldn't trash the scrollers suck section.

My 386DX40 barely ran this demo, but my Dell 486SX (25 mhz?) had no problems with it.

[matju2]

i recall that i got this kind of speed with a 386 or perhaps even a 486sx. This part was really designed for the strongest "consumer" desktops of the time, the 486dx's, especially the dx2 and dx3.

[jaymzjulian]

The reason for dosbox playing up on the fractal part, is that the auto-cycle detector incorrectly detects panic as requiring the cpu of a 286 - the demo mostly works, though, because of dosbox's fast, fast video access vs. a real pc. The solution is to force dosbox to use the max cpu cycles (or increase them to 10000+), then the fractal stuff works fine. The VGA register hacking stuff ("scrollers suck" and the realplasma) still suffer fail on dosbox, tho