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- From: peterm@maths.grace.cri.nz (Peter McGavin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Demo/game to OS frien
- Date: 28 Jan 1996 03:09:48 GMT
- Organization: Industrial Research Ltd
- Message-ID: <PETERM.96Jan28160948@tui.maths.irl.cri.nz>
- References: <4e8h9j$mp5@sinsen.sn.no>
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- In-reply-to: tbk@sn.no's message of 25 Jan 1996 19:14:11 +0100
-
- tbk@sn.no (Thore Bjerklund Karlsen) writes:
- >Do you seriously believe
- >that a standard A1200 would have had any great games if everybody used
- >the OS? I dare you to name ONE great game using *only* the OS!
-
- OK, so it's not a game, but you might like to try my ZX Spectrum
- emulator Aminet misc/emu/spectrum-1.7.lha. Magazine reviews rated it
- over 90%, so there must be something good about it. I wrote it OS
- compliant, even multitasking in an Intuition Screen, originally on a
- 7MHz A500. (OK, the last version was completed on an A3000.) Other
- emulators from the same time period, such as the KGB one and the
- Italian one, were slightly faster than mine because they killed the OS
- and used copper tricks for the display. However they died an early
- death because they didn't work with "weird" configs like accelerators
- or A1200s. On the other hand, my emulator works on just about
- anything thrown at it (even though I never had the opportunity to test
- first) and it benefits from the extra speed. It wasn't until recently
- when Toni Pomar wrote ZXAM that my emulator had any real competition
- on current hardware.
-
- Other great OS games include Diamond Caves and Gloom Deluxe. I'm sure
- there are others.
- --
- Peter McGavin. (p.mcgavin@irl.cri.nz)
-