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[StrongAxe]

What's the most powerful computer DF has ever been played on? 

I keep fantasizing about installing it on one of the Power 5 AIX machines at work, but I like my job.

Remember multiple processors don't count for DF.

[Andir]

What's the most powerful computer DF has ever been played on? 

I keep fantasizing about installing it on one of the Power 5 AIX machines at work, but I like my job.

Remember multiple processors don't count for DF.

I'm almost certain it would not run on a Power 5... the Linux version is compiled for x86 using a 32-bit compiled binary blob from Toady.

[LordSlowpoke]

When we get multi-threading we should just go on and donate money to a "Let's rent a supercomputer and embark on a 20x20 map" fund.
Population cap: 2000.
And we get Toady to play it himself.

[StrongAxe]

We could run it on Amazon's EC2 cloud I think. 

[Torchy]

When we get multi-threading we should just go on and donate money to a "Let's rent a supercomputer and embark on a 20x20 map" fund.
Population cap: 2000.
And we get Toady to play it himself.

Long-time DF player, first time poster here. Never actually bothered to sign up for the forums before.

I registered just so I could emphasize how incredible this would be.
We could actually make a bona fide capital city!
You'd need a means of upscaling sieges to match, however. A military of several hundred dwarves meeting a goblin army of (assuming the ratios that usually play out now) a few thousand attackers, charging the city on War Beak Dogs?

Yes please.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

You wouldn't actually be able to see much of anything at once. You'd let all the Epic leak out without noticing.

Needs to wait for graphics and multithreading and a "zoom out" feature.

[dennislp3]

You wouldn't actually be able to see much of anything at once. You'd let all the Epic leak out without noticing.

Needs to wait for graphics and multithreading and a "zoom out" feature.

If you play with the 40d## versions there is a zoom out feature

[Peewee]

Or you could play with a live 3D view along side. That would juice the Epic so much it could afford to leak a little.

[Urist McCyrilin]

Or you could play with a live 3D view along side. That would juice the Epic so much it could afford to leak a little.

Eh. I'd prefer keeping it ASCII but have a bigger map with more dorfs instead.

[Peewee]

I meant keep the bigger map with more dorfs, and just use the 3D view to see all of it at once to avoid this:

You wouldn't actually be able to see much of anything at once. You'd let all the Epic leak out without noticing.

Needs to wait for graphics and multithreading and a "zoom out" feature.