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- From: magicsn@birdland.es.bawue.de (Steffen Haeuser)
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- Subject: Re: Demo/game to OS frien
- Date: 15 Feb 1996 10:01:22
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-
- fischerj%informatik.tu-muenchen.de@INTERNET wrote :
-
- >
- >
- > In article <4eqd9l$d14@maud.ifi.uio.no>, larshau@ifi.uio.no (Lars Haugseth) writes:
- > |>
- > |> In article <4eo2in$51s@sinsen.sn.no>, tbk@sn.no (Thore Bjerklund Karlsen) writes:
- > |> > (Lars Haugseth)
- > |> >
- > |> > >> >Do you seriously believe
- > |> > >> >that a standard A1200 would have had any great games if everybody u
- > |> > >> >the OS? I dare you to name ONE great game using *only* the OS!
- > |> >
- > |> > >> Other great OS games include Diamond Caves and Gloom Deluxe. I'm sur
- > |> > >> there are others.
- > |> >
- > |> > >Colonization, Dune II, Might & Magic III, Angband, etc.
- > |> >
- > |> > Typical OS games.. Let's try something a bit more difficult, shall we?
- > |>
- > |> What do you mean by 'Typical OS games'?
- >
- > Needing long time to load from a disk, for example.
- > Maybe it's possible to do it more quick, for example
- > with taking care of saving the files most unfragmented.
- >
- > Typical OS-games scroll far beyond 25fps, for example
- > a unix game I saw on "POOOOOWERFUL" sgi. Not really
- > a claim that it's not possible.
- >
- > 'Typical OS' is also that it can't do what good old
- > A500 games did with using copper.
-
- One question : WHY should a game that got the base address of the Bitmap write
- FASTER directly to it than a game that got this pointer from the OS ???? That
- is silly (okay, i am leaving out copper etc. stuff here... but we want to go
- with the future, don't we...)
-
- Steffen Haeuser
-