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- From: lolsen@hsr.no (Lasse Olsen)
- 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: 29 Mar 1996 20:22:03 GMT
- Organization: UNINETT news service
- Message-ID: <4jhgpb$as9@dole.uninett.no>
- References: <4ikh3g$bp3@tkhut.sojourn.com> <4ite4v$c5r@info1.sdrc.com> <jsheehyDosnx5.9B5@netcom.com> <4jajtm$ru9@daily-planet.nodak.edu> <jsheehyDp0F5L.Js3@netcom.com>
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- John Sheehy (jsheehy@netcom.com) wrote:
- : In article <4jajtm$ru9@daily-planet.nodak.edu>,
- : Nathanael J Henderson <nahender@prairie.NoDak.edu> wrote:
- : >John Sheehy (jsheehy@netcom.com) wrote:
- : >
- : >: Perhaps, but the standard speeds for movies and video has generally been
- : >: what can be gotten away with, not how much we can appreciate. I've done
- : >: anims on my PC at 72 fps, and on my Retina card on my Amiga at 90 fps
- : >: double-buffered (on a 90 Hz 200*150 screen with MakeRace), and the
- : >: results were *far* better than what you normally get at 30 fps.
- : >
- : > All this talk of fps reminds me of a little 'Pong' type game I cobbled
- : >together once upon a time. Darn thing got roughly 700 fps! :-) ("And
- : >next week class we begin learning how to tie animation to the system
- : >clock...." ;-)
-
- : No, it didn't get 700 fps, it got it's display memory written to at that
- : rate. My examples were *updated* at those number of frames per second, and
- : they had pretty close to full frame deltas. I don't see the relevance of
- : your pong clone to this.
-
- : John Sheehy <jsheehy@netcom.com>
-
- Sorry for me beeing so blunt, but, I fail to see the
- relevance in this whole argument.
- Enligthen me.
- Cheers...
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