by Ice Cream Jonsey » Sat Jul 20, 2019 11:31 am
RealNC wrote: ↑Sat Jul 20, 2019 7:47 am
So 80% the same as 20 years ago. Just #1 changed to vlogger/youtuber from video game tester.
I did that job for a bit - I was at Cyrix on the site designing processors and the reference motherboards. (What I mean by that is that I had no part in the design, but I would - well, let me break out of these.) I was tasked with playing a bunch of games to make sure they worked OK on the Cyrix processor.
The funny thing was, you felt guilty doing it after a week or so. There were 40 some-odd games. I was playing entire games of NHL 98 over and over again. But you had bugs like the one with Final Fantasy VII where you could only see it if you were a ways of the way in.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/a ... 6B_jA1H-AJ
(And now that I read that, they are talking about it not even booting.)
After that first week it became a slog and I could see why they gave the task to the new person. Playing the same games over and over again isn't fun. I wonder if there's that sort of thing going on now for CPU processor manufacturers.
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So 80% the same as 20 years ago. Just #1 changed to vlogger/youtuber from video game tester.
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I did that job for a bit - I was at Cyrix on the site designing processors and the reference motherboards. (What I mean by that is that I had no part in the design, but I would - well, let me break out of these.) I was tasked with playing a bunch of games to make sure they worked OK on the Cyrix processor.
The funny thing was, you felt guilty doing it after a week or so. There were 40 some-odd games. I was playing entire games of NHL 98 over and over again. But you had bugs like the one with Final Fantasy VII where you could only see it if you were a ways of the way in.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.games.final-fantasy/RBOHt8Ze7JI/6z6B_jA1H-AJ
(And now that I read that, they are talking about it not even booting.)
After that first week it became a slog and I could see why they gave the task to the new person. Playing the same games over and over again isn't fun. I wonder if there's that sort of thing going on now for CPU processor manufacturers.