@ocornut @cmuratori For a quick overview of some of the nightmare past of graphics, look up retained mode and DirectX history for example.
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@dougbinks@ocornut DirectX was a relative latecomer. OpenInventor and so on were the real pioneers of bad RM APIs :P1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@cmuratori@ocornut Yeah, I used IrisGL when I was an academic, stayed away from OpenInventor. Didn't want to scare the young uns...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@dougbinks@ocornut It's funny to think about the days when non-consumer graphics hardware was faster than consumer graphics hardware :P1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@cmuratori@dougbinks Mirrors the dying concept of arcade games. They used to be the better hardware consumers would never have at home.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@ocornut@dougbinks It's too bad because these days you could make a BITCHIN arcade machine. Imagine like a bank of Xeon Phis?1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@ocornut@dougbinks Of course I don't know what you'd actually _do_ with them, but... JUST THINK OF THE FLOPS, MAN!!!1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@cmuratori@ocornut Given the potential for interesting installations, I wonder if VR + huge FLOPS could bring back arcarde?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@dougbinks@ocornut The fact that people are increasingly not buying home computers could be a pretty big thing that brings them back.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@dougbinks @ocornut I mean, they wouldn't be arcades in the traditional sense, they'd be LAN cafes, but that _is_ an arcade...
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@dougbinks@ocornut Like, if all anyone ever has at home anymore is an iPad, then suddenly a PC is essentially an arcade cabinet, right?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@cmuratori@dougbinks In the middle of your programming session appears a big "CONTINUE ?" screen and you have 10 seconds to put a coin1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes - Show replies
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