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- From: accolyte@wr.com.au (Accolyte)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Demo/game to OS frien
- Date: 5 Feb 1996 16:25:18 GMT
- Organization: Information Services, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- > accolyte@wr.com.au (Accolyte) writes:
- >>[...] And I don't like Diamond Caves. First of all it opens an
- >>interlace screen with no option to use anything else. What's this? No
- >>support for people without multisyncs? Hardly the support-everything
- >>motto OS guys have been screaming recently. And when compared to
- >>BaldersGrove (IMO the best BoulderDash clone) which is
- >>hardware-hitting, it fails miserably in terms of gameplay and speed.
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- > I just downloaded BaldersGrove from Aminet and so far it seems to be
- > almost totally OS-friendly. It works just fine on my ECS A3000
- > concurrently with my network server. It doesn't kill the interrupt
- > system nor multitasking. Even Amiga-M works. OK it appears to access
- > a Screen's bitplanes and it doesn't support gfx-cards even by
- > mode-promotion. On the other hand it's at least as OS-friendly as
- > games such as F18 Interceptor and my own Spectrum Emulator v1.7.
-
- So is that kind of thing acceptable to you? It may not support graphics
- cards, but I mean, it seems he's done everything he can without turning
- to changes that would take a lot of time.. ?
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