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		WoodenChair on Dec 9, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Game Boy Advance “Hello World” Using Zig Just for the record, "decently fast" in this case is a 16 Mhz ARM 7.

mikepurvis on Dec 9, 2019 | [–]

It's especially crazy that a bunch of them look to be rendering legit polygon scenes— this isn't early nineties 2.5D titles like Doom and Wolf3d running on 486 PCs.

DagAgren on Dec 10, 2019 | [–]

The ARM 7 is a pretty good processor, so it can get a lot done on 16 MHz. Quite a bit more than what an x86 of similar clock speed ever could.

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