Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini

I feel fortunate that my personal nostalgia starts to trail off somewhere around the 486 to 686 CPU range. As I understand it, the Pentium II is about as far as you can push hardware-accurate emulation at real-time speeds, thanks to the end of Dennard scaling: emulation is a single-core workload, and individual cores don't have enough clock frequency to go beyond that.

(Though to be fair, you can go faster by sacrificing hardware accuracy and/or via virtualization.)

I wanted to enjoy this post but couldn’t get past the obvious vibeslopped prose