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- From: Massimo.Mancini@rhein-neckar.de (Massimo Mancini)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: DOOM with Breathless engine?
- Date: 19 Jan 1996 17:07:25 GMT
- Organization: Lullaby of Birdland
- Message-ID: <2367.6592T300T2528@rhein-neckar.de>
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- Howdy!
-
- [...]
- >I tried. I downloaded about 3 or 4 of these texture mapping demos from
- >Aminet last night - AB3D demo, something called Fears, etc. Every
- >single one of them crashed my system (I have a stock 4000/040/25/GVP
- >Spectrum/CyberGfx - nothing even remotely exceptional here).
- NOTHING Exceptional ???
-
- First you`re using a 68040... Even if it`s becoming more popular, it`s
- still very unstable combined with games/demo software.
-
- THen you`re using a graphics card... If your so-called crashes mean that
- your workbench is freezed after you try to start any game or demo, then
- it`s just they don`t open a screen the way a promotor can handle it... the
- game/demo often runs in the normal amiga mode and you can`t see anything.
-
- >Somehow I am not impressed. This is why I don't buy Amiga games any
- >more. Applications invariably work on my machine. Games invariably do
- >not. My machine is not new in any regard. One would think game
- You MUST make anything wrong...
- I played MANY games on my A4000/040, including several CD32 CDs which I
- prefer!
-
- Even now, with the 68060, several games I tried (I didn`t try many, yet)
- worked perfectly - and this isn`t that normal as the 68060 normally causes
- crashes if it`s treated like a 030/040 because of some incompatibilities.
-
- >developers would have figured it out by now, but I guess not. The one
- >or two games which don't crash immediately (such as Hired Guns) always
- >assume they're talking to a 15 KHz screen mode, and my monitor, being a
- >bog standard multisync, doesn't go that low, making them unplayable.
- If you`re talking about "bootgames" and that you don`t own any kind of
- scandoubler/flickerfixer then WHAT DO YOU EXPECT ? That buying a Multisync
- makes any game automagically run in DBLPAL ?
-
- > - steve
- >PS - Perhaps, one could claim, with enough messing around and disabling
- >of the proper things, they could be made to work. Sorry, wrong answer...
- There`s a tool which allows workbench-startable games to open a specific
- screen to run on. This bypasses the main problem with gfx cards I mentioned
- above.
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