Release note Ver. 2
The development of CrystalMark Retro Ver. 2 began the day after Ver. 1.0.0 was released, when a user said, “You’ve got to be kidding, supporting XP or later, you’ve got to support Windows 98!”
I decided that Windows 95/NT 4.0 compatibility was necessary to call ourselves a true retro benchmark and decided to develop it on the same day, but the road to this goal was far beyond our imagination. It really took a whole year.
With technical advice from Roy Tam and many other users, I was able to overcome obstacles that I could never have overcome on my own, such as IE4 dependency elimination, i386 support, and Windows NT 3.51 support (requiring the application of a patch created by Roy Tam). I would also like to express my sincere gratitude to all those who willingly cooperated in the testing in the retro environment. I would like to thank koinec for further brushing up the OpenGL benchmarks and keinkosuge for developing CrystalMarkDB.
I hope that retro PC enthusiasts all over the world will use it for a long time to come.
March 31, 2025 – hiyohiyo |
