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From: [e-mail] (Juergen "Rally" Fischer)
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?
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Date: 20 Mar 1996 04:05:06 GMT
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: capabilities are inadequate. I recall he said they can make a normal
: Pentium 90Mhz push more texture mapped polygons than a PSX.
what about nessesary z-sorting operations ? games do no only rely
on raw rapping speed, I guess the PSX does mapping on separate hardware ?

: The most common complaint from the game developers about both PSX and
: Saturn seem to be their lack of memory, though.
no wonder, PC coders are used to need lot of recources, and no one will
notice because the PC OSes need even more...

: Anyways, PC is getting 3D accelerators, MMX CPUs etc., so even the M2
: and NU64 won't be able to leave PCs behind. As Direct3D will support
: both hardware rendering and geometry calculations for 3D graphics,
: chipsets like the Pyramid3D can really boost PC games graphically.
will they still be unable to do proper tripple-buffering ?

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: TLT ---> WWW homepage at http://spider.compart.fi/~ttammi/ <---
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