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- From: ja@oasis.icl.co.uk (James Allen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.cd32
- Subject: Re: CD32 not being used to potential
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 18:13:58 GMT
- Organization: ICL, Bracknell, UK
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- slider wrote:
- : Curious:
- : The CD Microcosm shows off the Akiko chips abillity to do some
- : really fast chunky to planar conversions as apparent from the really nice intro
- : mix of animation and mpeg video. Why if they were able to do this beautiful
-
- I think you`ll find that Microcosm did NOT use the Akiko chip as it runs
- fine on my A1200 with CDROM drive. Also, noway are the animations in MPEG
- format. They are most likely in CDXL format, which is bloody superb and
- extremely underused on the Amiga - we need a freely available encoder!!
-
- : intro did they drop to really cheesy graphics in the game play aside from the
- : textured walls moving around the ships and enemies are really ugly ala ECS style.
- : Then back to nice conversion graphics with the BOSS enemies.
-
- : Did the moving textured walls really take that much CPU time that
- : the game play and ship/enemy graphics suffered that much?? And what's with
- : the annoying commercial about Microcosm being free from Commodore cutting into
- : every intro animation/mpeg?
-
- : Anyone have any IDEA?
- The bit which pops up every so oftern is bloody annoying and typical of
- the Commodore of old...
- The game just wasnt developed in the right way and remember came out
- when all CD games (on the PC as well) used the same old formula of
- great graphics no gameplay....Basically the reason is due to lack
- of imagination and coding skill, although the intro is probably the
- best intro ever seen on the Amiga...
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