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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!agate!ames!decwrl!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!gunhed
From: gunhed@netcom.com (Steve Chaney - the luckiest man alive)
Subject: Re: PC Doom SUCKS compared to this...
Message-ID: <gunhedCtwCHr.6t8@netcom.com>
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
References: <31cimu$mun@eis.wfunet.wfu.edu> <31h5id$f91@news1.digex.net> <31j9up$apv@eis.wfunet.wfu.edu>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 07:22:39 GMT
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In article <31j9up$apv@eis.wfunet.wfu.edu> ahn@wfu.edu (Dave Ahn) writes:
>chris@clubside.digex.net (Chris Rowley) writes:
>
>>In article <31cimu$mun@eis.wfunet.wfu.edu> ahn@wfu.edu (Dave Ahn) writes:
>>> You're right. I'm running SGI Doom on an Indigo2 Extreme, which comes
>>> in at around $60,000. The animation is hell of a lot better than on
>>> a PC, though.
>>Obviously you were playing on the crappiest PC available at CompUSA... I
>>have a 486/66 with 32MB of RAM and a Stealth64 with 4MB of VRAM, and the
>>thing cooks, even better than on a friends Pentium (his Matrox Ultima
>>sucks in DOS). Since I'm sure iD didn't add frames to the animation,
>>you're just benefitting from decent hardware... but I'm sure mine's even
>>better. It ain't the architecture, it's the hardware (and I can
>>pixel-enlarge under NeXTSTEP as well, but I enjoying playing a lively game
>>of doom in a puny window while reading news in another)...
>
>I didn't say that you should go out and buy an SGI. All I said was, SGI
>Doom seems (IMO) better than on a PC. Someone guessed that the
>pixel ratio was closer to 1:1 on SGI Doom, which might give the effect
>that the graphics has "more" detail for distant objects. SGI Doom
>doesn't use any extra features (antialiasing, new sprites, pixel averaging,
>smoothing, etc). But I'm benefiting from, as you say, "decent" hardware.
>I doubt your DX2-66 is better than the Indigo2 Extreme. Afterall,
>it's the _hardware_ not the architecture, and your best PC hardware
>doesn't compare to high quality SGI hardware. Otherwise, the I^2 Extreme
>wouldn't cost 15 times your PC. And I highly doubt that your PC or
>your NeXT box can handle 4 sessions of Doom without getting any performance
>penalty (somebody posted this).
15 times?! Dang, it's not worth it =)
-- Steve