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- From: m-15798@mailbox.swipnet.se (Jan SyrΘn)
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- Subject: Re: DOOM with Breathless engine?
- Date: 17 Jan 1996 03:12:48 GMT
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- >> : trundling around a drab, unimaginative prison cell on a
- >> : unicycle with a wobbly wheel wishing you`d brought your glasses
- >> : so the other inmates wouldn`t look so blurred.
- >> Yup. It's sllooowww and crap. But it got you and Black Magic
- >> off your backsides to go and write Gloom and AB3DSE.
- >> : where you press three buttons simultaneously and play something
- >> : else instead
- >> : fire twenty feet over the heads of the enemy who then die,
- >> : presumably of surprise.
- >> But yet if you fire one mm BELOW them you miss.
- >I'm getting worried here. I thought the Breathless engine was good. I just
- >ordered the game from Power for full price so as not to wait any longer. But
- >will there be fixes to things like the collision detection? And being
- >commercial, will it wait until a Breathless 2, and cost the full price again?
- >Surely it is still a fun game to play, and not TOO tedious?
- I must say that I am not so very impressed by either nemac or breathless.
- They doesen't support the 060 at all, if you play in lowres with a very small
- screen, then you might get more than 2 fps.
- I know this sounds crazy but it went a lot faster on my old 030 at 50MHz with
- a fpu at 50MHz, and now I just got my blizzard 1260 with 16Mb and they are not
- even playable. AB3D work fine thou, and I hope they will include some 060
- routines in their new engine.
- And if someone knows how to get more speed out of breathless (demo), then
- please let me know how.
- The patch included with the 1260 just emulates a fpu wich is not very help-
- full in games, they would need a 030 patch, or a better engine (team 17 and
- silltunna software are the only one who succeded with this), and in extreme
- neet racing demot is there a included engine for 040/060 or 020/030, and I
- think that more developers should do like this, then more people would buy
- their products and more people would upgrade to a faster processor to gain
- more speed, even if they just play games (take a look at the pc market), and
- not only the ones who are working with heavy applications like raytracing or
- similar.
-
- PS
- I am waiting for AB3D2 with a great hope for a good engine
- DS
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