Comment by apelapan
2 days ago
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.
2 days ago
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.
Odd. I distinctly remember listening to music via Winamp, and updating my tsv-databases, while copying downloaded data (mostly e-books and music) from the local uni's internet saved to Zip 100 disks (and later Zip 250s on a Pentium II). Same for the ubiquitous LAN parties. One thing to add is that the read and written data were completely sequestered (i. e. on different drives); an early safety practice that became a habit a long time ago.