Why fastDOOM is fast
Mar 04, 2025
Why fastDOOM is fast
During the winter of 2024, I restored an IBM PS/1 486-DX2 66Mhz, "Mini-Tower", model 2168. It was the computer I always wanted as a teenager but could never afford. Words cannot do justice
to the joy I felt while working on this machine.
As soon as I got something able to boot, I benchmarked the one software I wanted to run.
C:\DOOM>doom.exe -timedemo demo1
timed 1710 gametics in 2783 realtics
Doom doesn't give the fps right away. You have to do a bit of math to...
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