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- From: Timo.Jantunen@hut.fi (Timo Jantunen)
- Subject: Re: Sierra is gone
- In-Reply-To: elm4@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu's message of 16 Nov 92 01:46:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <TIMO.JANTUNEN.92Nov16104435@lesti.hut.fi>
- Sender: usenet@cs.hut.fi (Uutis Ankka)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <1992Nov16.014626.6126@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 08:44:35 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- In article <1992Nov16.014626.6126@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> elm4@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Ed Mackey) writes:
-
- >But of course. That's because they ported it from a 386 to a 68000, so
- >it slows down and people complain. What they _should_ be doing is porting
- >it from a 386 to a 68000 plus custom chips and blitter. Why is this so
- >hard to figure out?
-
- From what I know, most of Sierra programs are made (mostly) in C (or other
- high level language), because it cuts down coding time (and time is money).
- It is fast enough in 386, but in 68000... And doing assembly code and
- using blitter etc. would take much time. And because Amiga games don't have
- so big markets (yeah, many Amigas sold, but much more PCs, most of which
- aren't used for playing but still), and piracy is lowering sales.
-
-
- >>and moan if the Amiga version is one color or one pixel short of the PC
- >And why should it be one pixel short, when it could be worlds smoother
- >and better?
-
- Again, Sierra thinks it's not worth it. To get better graphics is difficult,
- because most of them is digitized. VGA uses 256/256K, Amiga 32-64/4K(?) colors.
- (HAM is probably too difficult). Using blitter would speed up graphics,
- but again, it would take coding and...
-
-
- >>version. You can't blame them for not wanting to bother with a small group
- >A small group bought more than 3 million Amigas?
-
- And how many of them _buys_ games regulary?
- Compared to them who use pirated versions?
-
- Disclaimer: Don't flame me, kill pirates (for a start).
-
-
- // /
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