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- From: m92mmy@tdb.uu.se (Mattias Myrberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Wing Commander Amiga
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.003326.2195@tdb.uu.se>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 00:33:26 GMT
- References: <2113@vall.dsv.su.se>
- Organization: Alien Dreams Department
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- In article 22260 Mattias Dahlberg writes:
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- >>Robert L. Thomas (rlt20429@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
- >> Amiga has lost what made it a great game machine
-
- >Ehh.. Are we talking AGA-machines here..?
-
- Exsqueese me, but just more colours doesn't make games BETTER, it's the SPEED
- that makes people turn their head.
-
- And as we ALL know the A1200 still has a 16-BIT blitter that works at
- the same OLD SLUGGISH pace.
- 32-bit BANDWITH gives more opportunities for blitter to do it's thing.
-
- -throw in a 256-COLOUR screen and it won't be much faster than an OLD A500 in SLOW halfbright-mode (guesswork but what da heck :)
-
- Now, will I burn 8000 SEK to get a A1200 HD ?
- (I #%$$#%$@ hate this %$#@% country :P )
- Or will I wait another year to get something that's decent ?
-
- /Mattias
-
- _______
- Mattias Myrberg
-
- -All humans deserve a good portion of total termination
-
- m92mmy@bellatrix.tdb.uu.se
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