What we watching? – Mudspike at the movies

[Aginor]

@wheelsup_cavu

Our smartphones of today probably have as much computing power as that entire room.

They sure have!

I made a thread about that topic once, if you are interested in that kind of thing:

Computing power

So, today I ran this old gem on my phone, on ScummVM. [Screenshot_20191118-195621_ScummVM] And I wondered just how much faster my phone is, compared to the speed of the PC I played this game on, in… 1990 I guess. And WTF. I knew today’s stuff is a lot faster, but seeing the numbers is insane. It doesn’t feel right, like, if someone just was off by an order of magnitude or two. It is just unreal. So let’s see. MIPS = Millions operations per second FLOPS = Floating point operations per seco…