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Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95 — proves 2007 phones can just about match 1998 PCs
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To be fair, not far from your average crt monitor in 1998, maybe 640 x 480.
I ran Half-Life at 400x300, because I didn't even had a 3D accelerator.
800x600 was perfectly fine on my (family computer) 1997* era ATi Rage Pro 8MB AGP (funnily enough, it was slightly slower than the PCI version) card for Half Life 1. 1024x768 too but less FPS. Quake 3 Arena ran better.
It's four times smaller, though, so enough to make a significant difference
What?! Was I so privileged to have a 720p CRT at the time? (ok well not literally 720p, but a higher resolution 4:3... 800x600)
... actually remembering it, it was probably well after 1998, but I have plenty of memories going, "mmmm, 800x600". maybe even more at 1024x768.
I only really started to understand what it all meant and how neat better resolution was with Unreal Tournament, so... definitely post 1999
800x600 is 600p. 720p is 1280x720