> Coding for PC hardware, for one reason or another, SAPS the strength from the
> hardware and takes it into API HELL. MS made sure of that when they insisted
> everyone follow their shit APIs that work fine on the PC to render your pie
> chart but drag Halo to its knees on anything less than a 3GHz machine. Fine
> work by MS.

it's a damned shame these days. the demo scene still makes use of raw pc power [sometimes, at least]- but nobody else does. all those apis make it easy to program but hard to innovate or really take the hardware to the next level. sad stuff.