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- From: sledford@iglou.iglou.com (Steve L. Edford)
- Subject: Re: There is *NO* Amiga....STOP IT NOW
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- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 05:10:58 GMT
-
- sloppy@mack.rt66.com (John Millington) writes:
-
- >Charles E Taylor IV (charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu) wrote:
- >: : An Amiga with everything (GFX cards, Sound cards
- >: :etc) is many time better than anything..
-
- >: How do you figure? All those brilliant games don't support the graphics
- >: and sound cards. (Name a commercial game that takes advantage of an Amiga
- >: *sound* card, or one that has built-in support for an Amiga graphics card.
- >: pretty short list, eh?)
-
- >I'm going to hate myself for saying this, but I _can_ think of many games
- >that will use extra hardware like graphics cards on my Amiga: Doom II,
- >Warlords II, SimCity 2000.. in other words, ALL MAC GAMES (running under
- >ShapeShifter). Don't people know that "Macintosh" is really just a device-
- >independant API spec for running games on Amigas? :-)
-
- Actually, I passed over this one because it appeared to be yet another
- person who already has it set in *their* mind that the Amiga is not a
- viable option. I'm not really that much into games, but there are *many*
- that will work with gfx cards. Ever seen MegaBall4 on a 24-bit screen? I
- already tried it, looks great and plays great. :-) I even ran an old
- (circa 1986) game called GravityWars, where it draws planets and 2 ships,
- then each player selects a firing angle/velocity and tries to hit the
- opponents ship. This ran amazingly faster on an 800x600 Picasso screen than
- before on the native Amiga screen. So I would conclude that there are
- Amiga games that support gfx cards. Commercial? On the Amiga, what's the
- difference? PD games in many cases are superior to commercial games, IMHO.
- Diamond Caves has built-in prefs for your preferred screenmode (including
- gfx card screens). Fields of Battle does also, and NeMacs IV. If I were
- more into games, I bet I could name a much longer list.
-
- > Yog-Sothoth Neblod Zin,
- > John Millington
- --
-
- Steve Edford
- sledford@iglou.com
-