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petaleverbloom··on Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini
It ran VisualBoyAdvance pretty well! I haven't tried Project64 but I think the emulated Voodoo3 should support Jabos D3D6/7 backend with older versions. Was quite thrilled today to see my article blow up so if there's anything you'd want me to test I have mostly a free weekend.
petaleverbloom··on Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini
Yes, you can.
petaleverbloom··on Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini
Author of the article/site here, I have a MacBook neo I could test 86box on with this same build. But practically speaking yes, it has reasonable ST perf and my guess would be it's competitive with the best x86 chips available today for this workload.
petaleverbloom··on MacBook Neo: Gaming with just 5 watts
Full disclosure, it's a review I've put together. I was really surprised that despite the laptop being bigger, the Neo seems to hit a ceiling at about 5 watts, even when running Cyberpunk 2077. The powermetrics weren't showing the consumption form the DRAM package so it might be the actual ceiling is 6 watts and the 4.5-4.7 is that budget sans DRAM power, but given the numbers I think this might be one of the most efficient laptops on the market