Amazing stuff, although if Doom had worked well on a 386 back in the 90s I'd probably not have ended up in IT.
Spent countless hours trying to get games working by messing about with config.sys/autoexec.bat, defragging, UMA, DMA channels, etc.
I think this might be the first time I've heard of the UMC Green CPU.
Same here. Interestingly, UMC's chip design unit was later spun off as MediaTek, which is today one of the world's major suppliers of ARM-based smartphone chipsets, WiFi and Ethernet chips, etc.
I think it was hexen that implored you to buy a 486 if the viewport window was set to the smallest size. That's all I could think about when I saw potato mode!
Originally I thought it was a text printed on the screen, but looking at the art assets in Rise of the Triad, the "buy a 486! :)" actually part of the background graphic. It's just normally hidden by the play area unless you use the smallest size.
no, it was raise of traid (or whatever the correct name was)