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Ogre Battle 64 Recompilation Project Reaches 99.05% Completion
Commenter questions why recompiled game still requires modern hardware
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Sep 21 8:32 AM
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A community member expressed confusion about why a recompiled executable needs hardware two decades newer than the original N64, raising a technical question the discussion did not resolve.
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“So I've no clue how all this recompiling works, but why does the result of this process still need hardware that is at least two decades newer in order to run?”
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Are there any similar projects that do recompilation for old DOS games? I am mainly interested in games written in Borland Turbo C, as I am trying to work out how one of them works. Some resources like tutorials would be great too.
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So I've no clue how all this recompiling works, but why does the result of this process still need hardware that is at least two decades newer in order to run?
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I know there are a lot of recomp projects like this out there - are there any sites dedicating to aggregating them all and tracking their progress?
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