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redblade8:
Maybe simple windows 95 games could run..I was told by a developer here once before that it was possible to run Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 on an 80mhz mp3 such as the sansa e200.

[Saint]:

--- Quote from: redblade8 on June 29, 2013, 01:27:12 AM ---Maybe simple windows 95 games could run..I was told by a developer here once before that it was possible to run Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 on an 80mhz mp3 such as the sansa e200.

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I suspect you are confused or mistaken...

To put it quite simply, there is no way in Hell that would be possible. I highly doubt any developer would have said that, any developer should know all too well that such a scenario is impossible.

Lets take a look at the minimum/recommended requirements for RT3:


--- Quote ---Operating System: Windows® 98/Me/2000/XP (Windows® XP recommended)
Processor: Pentium® III 733 MHz or compatible (Pentium® 4 1.2 GHz or compatible recommended)
Memory: 128 MB RAM; 256 MB for XP (256 MB; 384 MB for XP recommended)
Hard Disk Space: 600 MB free CD-ROM Drive: 4X CD-ROM or faster (8X or faster recommended)
Video: Any ATI Radeon™ or GeForce™ 2 with 32MB or higher; or other video card with 32MB and hardware T&L (ATI Radeon™ 64 MB SDR or GeForce™ 2 Pro or other video card with 64 MB or more memory and hardware T&L recommended)*
Sound: Windows® 98/Me/2000/XP-compatible 16-bit sound card*
DirectX®: DirectX® version 9 (included) or higher
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The *minimum* requirements are approximately 10X the CPU, and 64X RAM of the device you stated...and this is ignoring the fact that there is no video card whatsoever, and no DirectX support, and ignoring the fact that, even if the hardware could run this, you would never be able to play it on such a device due to the screen.

The only devices that could run this are some Rockbox as an Application targets, and on those devices, it makes absolutely zero sense to implement this as a plugin for Rockbox as a better native solution almost certainly exists.


[Saint]

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