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- From: jamesm@it.ntu.edu.au (James McArthur)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Date: 9 Apr 1996 14:10:52 GMT
- Organization: Northern Territory University
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- G'Day Fabio Bizzetti, you wrote:
-
- : >anthonyh@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Anthony Hutchinson [ICTC]) wrote:
- : >>>Where did other games classics such as Lemmings,
- : >>>Populous etc Originate?
- : >>
- : >>What doest the amiga have today?
-
- : >All sorts of stuff, just a bit low in the texture mapped 3d department.
- : >This state of affairs won't last long, though.
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- : >>Wing Commander?
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- : >Er. Well, actually, yes. #1, anyway.
- : >Hopefully Starfighter is still on the cards?
- : >(There's worrying mutterings coming from that direction)
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- : The 2nd StarFighter's original 3D engine is being developed at the moment.
- : Then the 3rd (realtime 3D canyon spaceships fighting) and it's finished.
-
- : Well worth the time to wait. :)
-
- : BTW: no, I am not reading how they do 3D games on PC to make SF, I am making it
- : Amiga specific. This will demonostrate you much about the Amiga's nature.
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- Its not going to look as "different" as Virtual Karting is it? I mean there
- might have been a wealth of wonderful coding pratices in the graphics engine,
- but the finished product was less then crash hot.
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- "Starfighter" is going to look good isnt it? (Or will it be able to use
- the CV64 card ??)
-
- : /-----------------------------------------------------------------------\
- : | Fabio "Maverick" Bizzetti - bizzetti@mbox.vol.it - Maverick* at IRC |
- : | The maker of "CyberMan" and "Virtual Karting" |
- : | working on "VirtualRally" & "StarFighter" |
- : \-----------------------------------------------------------------------/
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