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- From: trixter@MCS.COM (Trixter / Hornet)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: These technical terms...
- Date: 17 Apr 1996 13:01:42 -0500
- Organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation
- Message-ID: <4l3bm7$qql@Venus.mcs.com>
- References: <1582.6676T834T1624@mbox.vol.it> <1467.6678T966T229@Redrobe.demon.co.uk> <4l17o8$btf@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
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- In article <4l17o8$btf@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>,
- Juergen Fischer <fischerj@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> wrote:
- >SO TELL ME WHY THE DAMN DOOM IS FASTER THAN ANY CLONE I SAW
- >EVEN ALTHOUGH THE BANDWIDTH OF THAT BLOODY VGA IS 1.75MB/SEC ?
- >HUH ?
-
- Well, Doom is texture-mapped raycasting, and as such, is all chunky.
- VGA hardware is chunky. Doom draws directory to video card memory.
-
- I would imagine that the Amiga clones can draw about as fast to
- fastram, but then they've got to go through the chunky-to-planar
- conversion, which is probably where the real slowdown is.
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