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- From: magicsn@birdland.es.bawue.de (Steffen Haeuser)
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- Subject: Re: 15khx screenmodes in games
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 00:15:39
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-
- christer.bjarnemo%mailbox.swipnet.se@INTERNET schrieb :
-
- >
- > On 23-Jan-96 01:11:38, Peter Elzner said something about Re: 15khx screenmodes
- > in games:
- >
- >>> Hexen, C&C and Warcraft should be possible to create on the Amiga!
- >>Not with AGA chips. Trust me.
- >
- > Ha ha Peter, that was a good one! :-)
- >
- > Since you're a programmer, im a bit surprised that you still thinks
- > that AGA is the problem with tmapping. Did you miss AB3D? Gloom Deluxe? Xtr?
- > Breathless?
- >
- > Let's take AB3D as an example. That's a _REAL_ 3D engine, not that pseudo-3D
- > that Doom uses. Hexen _IS_ possible, but as AB3D, barely playable on a
- > standard A1200. But then again, _AGA_ isn't the problem, _CPU_ IS...
-
- You are wrong. The CPU is not the problem (if we assume a fast 030 or a 040 as
- standard configuration...), AGA is the problem. AB3D uses 2x2 pixel modes or
- something like that, Gloom Deluxe is a Wolfenstein Engine (and only really
- fast, if you play it on a GFX Board), Breathless is MUCH slower in Fullscreen
- than Marathon running on the Shapeshifter Mac Emulation is... using a GFX
- Board... and Marathon runs in 640x480 !!!
-
- The problem is that AGAs limit about how much MB/s it can do is a bit LOW. (or
- to tell it that way : Breathless could be MUCH faster, if it supported GFX
- Boards...)
-
- Okay, you can do something "not absolutely cool, but not bad" on AGA, but the
- future for Amiga games (at least high end games) is GFX Board Support...
-
- Steffen Haeuser
-