The Powder Toy

Powder-legacy

  • Veljko     17th Jan 2015 Member 0 Permalink

    There in no difference between Powder, and Powder-legacy.

    Powder-legacy can run on Pentium 3.

    I have old computers, and i tested it.

    I just wanted to ask why are you using Powder, when Powder-legacy works fine with old, and new computers.

  • boxmein     17th Jan 2015 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    Powder.exe uses neat instruction set extensions while Powder-legacy can't (since that's its entire point). Those extensions are often much faster than using without.

  • mniip     17th Jan 2015 Developer 0 Permalink
    Pentium 3 does have SSE. Try on Pentium 1 or 80386
  • jacob1     17th Jan 2015 Developer 0 Permalink
    The sse2 version isn't really that much faster than the legacy version, but you should use the sse2 one anyway. I think the legacy one has some kind of bug (probably due to broken compiler optimizations or something) where particles move into walls and disappear.
  • nucular     17th Jan 2015 Member 0 Permalink
    >Pentium 1
    drop support.
  • boxmein     18th Jan 2015 Former Staff 1 Permalink
    Pft, let's compile TPT for the Commodore 64!
  • jacob1     18th Jan 2015 Developer 1 Permalink
    One time someone complained that TPT didn't work on windows 98. I told them to stop using windows 98 ...

    I really have no idea what it requires, but I do know I added a #define that made it target some version of Windows XP (can't remember if all Windows XP or just service pack 2). But everyone should really be using 7 or 8 by now ...

    Edit: Also i'd also like to drop the -legacy version, it only creates confusion. For a game like TPT, extra optimizations make sense.
    Edited once by jacob1. Last: 18th Jan 2015
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