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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
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From: gmatic@Matrox.com (Goran Matic)
Subject: Re: PC Doom SUCKS compared to this...
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References: <31cimu$mun@eis.wfunet.wfu.edu> <31h5id$f91@news1.digex.net> <31j9up$apv@eis.wfunet.wfu.edu> <gunhedCtwCHr.6t8@netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 1994 19:05:05 GMT
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In article <gunhedCtwCHr.6t8@netcom.com>, gunhed@netcom.com (Steve Chaney - the luckiest man alive) says:
>
>In article <31j9up$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
Matrxo ultima fine, but take a look at the newer version of the matrox mga. With
the proper version of doom. It cooks far more. The resolution and the frame
rate will stuyn you. sure the older version of the mga were not very powerfull
vga engines but that's why they cooked in windows with 64bit.
Anyways,....