MAX really slow on older machine

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Ive got an interesting speed report.

I tried running rik's shooty demo on an 800 Mhz laptop with an ati rage mobility (mach64) card. It runs at about 1 frame per second.
The laptop isnt THAT slow and graphically it can handle aged games with far more graphics demands like baulders gate etc with no problems. Its a dual boot machine and runs the same in linux and XP

Why is it so slow?