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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Path: cix.compulink.co.uk!usenet
- From: jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Jolyon Ralph")
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Message-ID: <DoKtxu.A0p@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Organization: Compulink Information eXchange
- References: <hA4Tx0kkAwBf088yn@spider.compart.fi>
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:29:54 GMT
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- > Jonathan Belson <jon@dookie.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- >
- > ->My comparison was based on seeing TFX II running at about 5 frames per
- > ->second on a P6 at my local PC World.
- >
- > And how fast did that game run on a PSX? Anyways, TFX II is probably not
- > a Windows NT or Linux game, so it would probably have run somewhat
- > faster on a fast Pentium. Beats me why they demoed it on a P6.
-
- It probably uses 32-bit code through a dos extender, in which case the
- poor performance is probably due to a poor video card in the PC World PC
- rather than anything P6 specific....
-
- Jolyon
-