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- From: drizzit@eskimo.com (G. Baldwin)
- Subject: Re: NA Games magazines not covering Amiga titles as much
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- Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 15:29:22 GMT
-
- John Millington (sloppy@mack.rt66.com) wrote:
- : Zipperware Staff - Amiga Rules! (zipware@nwlink.com) wrote:
- : : As far as games go, we are bringing in the latest games from the UK.
- : : Breathless, Extreme Racing, Gloom Deluxe...The problems is we are not selling
- : : that many games.
-
- : Do the games work with CyberGraphX? Will I be able play the games while
- : downloading things with AmFTP and Dopus is doing something complicated to
- : a bunch of my files? If so, then THAT is what you should be advertising,
- : so that I'll know it's safe to buy these games. If the games _won't_ do
- : these things, then they're probably not going to interest very many
- : Amiga owners.
-
- Most likely, no.
-
-
- Most games do one of many thing, such as direct baning of the hardware
- registers, basing their raster timing on the specific screenmode (suchas
- PAL or NTSC so that they won't work with DblPAL/DblNTSC, let alone a grfx
- card. Others use sprites which the grfx card may not support, or they
- just don't like the fact that the grfx card's pallete is far more limited
- that AGA. Here is what I am talking about when comparing two colors:
-
- AGA 8-bit screen
- Each color (0 to 255) can come from 8bits of red, green and blue.
- ie, Color # 135 = 10110100 01110110 10111111
- RED GREEN BLUE
-
- CV64 8-bit screen
- Each color (0 to 255) can come from 5bits of red, green, and blue.
- ie, Color # 135 = 10110 01110 10111
- which is same as 10110000 01110000 10111000
-
-
- As you see, they aren't the same color! The CV64 just can't do it. It a
- limit of most PC style chips when using 8-bit screens. And since most
- cards under CybverGrfx (like the CV64) are the same way, AGA games just
- don't work right. Oh well...
-
-
- : Yog-Sothoth Neblod Zin,
- : John
-
- Greg Baldwin (drizzit@eskimo.com)
- Amiga junkie and user since 1987 Computer Science & DTV Student
- Commodore64 fan since about 1983 http://www.eskimo.com/~drizzit
- Tyranical EFNet #Amiga Channel Operator "Drizzit"
-