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- From: accolyte@wr.com.au (Accolyte)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Demo/game to OS frien
- Date: 3 Feb 1996 10:04:37 GMT
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- > 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.
-
- That's only because they made silly mistakes. This does not have to
- happen with any hardware hitting program. Also, something like an emulator
- is a big difference from modern games, so the comparison probably doesn't
- apply.
-
- > 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.
-
- There could easily be a hardware-hitting emulator that kicks both (in
- terms of speed anyway). It'd just need a decent programmer so the
- result actually works with expanded Amigas.
-
-
- > Other great OS games include Diamond Caves and Gloom Deluxe. I'm sure
- > there are others.
-
- Gloom Deluxe is very good, although I seriously doubt it uses system
- routines for the parts designed to run on a stock 1200. 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. In any case, two games is not a hell of a lot.
- And both of the games you mentioned require a *considerable* amount of
- extra hardware to get the same (or less) performance as the hw-hitting
- equivalent.
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