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- From: nino@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Marinos Yannikos)
- Subject: Re: The compatibility story (Falcon & A1200)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.104407.29772@email.tuwien.ac.at>
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- Organization: TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
- References: <1993Jan10.171538.26344@news.uit.no>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:44:07 GMT
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- borgen@stud.cs.uit.no (Boerge Noest) writes:
- : In article <1993Jan10.110720.14311@umiami.ir.miami.edu> dlk0ms9s@umiami.ir.miami.edu writes:
- : [...]
- : If your Falcon does 95% then I'm tempted to suggest that you come from
- : another planet. I'm not saying that it is impossible, but I have a hard
- : time accepting it.
- : Most problems comes from the fact that
- : - self-modyfying code blows up with caches (turn them off)
- : - the stack frame is different (no hope for these shitty programmers)
- : - it runs faster and timing depending on the processor speed blows up. This
- : is especially bad on custom loaders (more shitty programmers)
-
- Then again, most games don't use self-modifying code (ok, perhaps some of
- the games from former demo-coders), the stack frame isn't particularly
- interesting for games either (Can't think of any serious reason, this
- should only give vector-bending software a hard time), and the timing
- won't be so much of a problem either, because 1. most games run in the
- VBL (so the speed depends on the display frequency), 2. those which don't
- won't run THAT much faster, since the Falcon is only 4-5 times faster
- than the ST in the ST modes... :)
-
- : A very big number of Amiga games have been done on the ST by the same
- : programmers so you'll have your share of crashing games.
-
- Well... Actually I don't think the old games are so important - except
- a few good ones (Dungeon Master ...) there isn't anything that will
- look or feel particularly good after you've seen some real Falcon games...
-
- : Programs that use the OS give the OS writers a chance to help them even if
- : they screw up in some way. Of course, some are beyond all hope.
-
- I agree...
-
- : >[ Mark Santora ]
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- : #Disclaimer: This university and me does not agree.
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