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[Nils Kassube]

kbun at xpresso.seaslug.org wrote:
> The latest versions of flash software use sse and sse2.
> 
> The problem? I have a Pentium 3. Processors under Pentium
> 4 _don't_have_ sse2 or further up.
> 
> Don't you just love commercial programmers who can't be
> bothered to write for everyone, just those who have the
> newest, latest, greatest machines?

I don't think it is limited to commercial programmers. After all the 
current 32bit Ubuntu kernel doesn't support machines without PAE any 
more. And I think calling something with SSE2 "the newest, latest, 
greatest machine" is a bit of an exaggeration. From 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE2>:

| SSE2, Streaming SIMD Extensions 2, is one of the Intel SIMD (Single
| Instruction, Multiple Data) processor supplementary instruction sets
| first introduced by Intel with the initial version of the Pentium 4 in
| 2001.
  ^^^^
That SSE2 feature you're missing is more than a decade old.

BTW: Did you try to watch the flash videos with gnash? Maybe the open 
source version can play the videos and maybe it still supports your 
ancient hardware.


Nils