Comment by qingcharles
2 months ago
I had to look up which PC games had an option to use the x87:
- Vette! - Falcon 3.0 - Quake
And some others:
https://www.mobygames.com/attributes/attribute/115/
Apparently the 87/287/387 weren't that good as a gaming co-pro as the marshaling of the data to/fro from the CPU was too slow. It was a lot better on the 486DX onwards, I guess.
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