Decompression in conjunction with primitive multi-tasking on MacOS and Windows. That remained an issue until Windows XP.
(Very small groups of) people used be in awe at LAN parties when I showed them how Linux could play an MP3 without stutters while copying large files across the network and browsing images.
Then it was time to play games and people were less impressed by me not being able to join any other game than Quake...
Winamp was perfectly fine by itself as I recall it. Even on a P100 without MMX which was what I rocked around 96-97. But as soon as you did anything else that involved any kind of IO, there would be skips and stutters.
Decompression in conjunction with primitive multi-tasking on MacOS and Windows. That remained an issue until Windows XP.
(Very small groups of) people used be in awe at LAN parties when I showed them how Linux could play an MP3 without stutters while copying large files across the network and browsing images.
Then it was time to play games and people were less impressed by me not being able to join any other game than Quake...
> Decompression in conjunction with primitive multi-tasking on MacOS and Windows. That remained an issue until Windows XP.
No problems here on Winamped Windows 98, albeit on a Pentium 166 with MMX. Often enough it was just a systems configuration issue.
Winamp was perfectly fine by itself as I recall it. Even on a P100 without MMX which was what I rocked around 96-97. But as soon as you did anything else that involved any kind of IO, there would be skips and stutters.
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