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- From: m92mmy@tdb.uu.se (Mattias Myrberg)
- Subject: Re: Wing Commander Amiga
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.013953.19430@tdb.uu.se>
- Organization: Temple Of Wrath
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- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 01:39:53 GMT
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- In article 22459 Mattias Dahlberg writes:
- :: Exsqueese me, but just more colours doesn't make games BETTER, it's
- :: the SPEED that makes people turn their head.
-
- :I wasn't talking about COLORS I was talking about SPEED. Apparently
- :you haven't tried AGA yet. AGA-machines, as I wrote, are 32 bit computers
- :with a blitter that works four times faster than on older Amigas. This
- :is a fact.
-
- Ok, ok, so you were talking 'speed'.
-
- Right, but I have a feeling people will demand games with 8-bit screens.
- Won't this slow down the blitter the same way the ehalfbrite and medres-
- modes do on an A500 (i.e pilfer DMA-slots) ???
-
- In article 22456 Markus Juhani Aalto writes:
-
- >Mattias Myrberg writes:
-
- >>Exsqueese me, but just more colours doesn't make games BETTER, it's the SPEED
- >>that makes people turn their head.
-
- >You don't think that better and faster processor has nothing to do with
- >speed? A1200 has 14Mhz 68020 while A500 has only ~7Mhz 68000.
-
- I'm not sure about this one, so correct me I'm wrong ;^)
-
- If it's the MC68000 that's the bottleneck in games like StarGlider 2
- (i.e intensive vector-calculations) then there will be an improvement
- in terms of speed. But it could be the blitter, and then of course
- you're much better of in this kind of game -they hardly ever use ehalbrite
- or (nowadays, I guess) 256-modes :^) . But your average shoot'em up won't
- gain much speed with a 68020.
-
- Of course all of the above heavily relies on 'the blitter slowing down
- when in 8-bit mode' :^)
-
-
- /Mattias
-
- _____
- Mattias Myrberg
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- m92mmy@bellatrix.tdb.uu.se
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