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- From: barnabas@terapin.com (Colin Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
- Subject: Re: AGA-games
- References: <1993Jan21.060121.25716@wam.umd.edu>
- Message-ID: <barnabas.3f35@terapin.com>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 17:21:11 PST
- Organization: BBS
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- In article <1993Jan21.060121.25716@wam.umd.edu>, davereed@wam.umd.edu (Michael
- Robert Bromery) writes:
- > Don't forget Mindscape. They are sure to be on the list for the AGA Amiga
- >on their ports. In fact, I found out something really interesting. Well, it
- >took a while longer to get my version of Wing Commander apparently because
- >they were revising it with(what amigaman told me (Amigaman -- The shop)) AGA
- >support.
- > Well, I have an ECS Agnus and an EHB Denise with workbench 2.04 and my
- >friend has a 1.2 older amiga with the old chip set, but he may have EHB
- Denise.
- > Anyways, I noticed that the Wing Commander I got would actually revise it's
- >graphics according to what version of the OS you are using. AGA support might
- >actually really have been written for it. All I know is that it most
- definitely
- >looked better on my machine even on a television set. My TV adaptor is messed
- up
- >
- >right now, but I happen to get a glimpse of it (By holding the adaptor(in a
- way
- >I don't prefer to do it, plus I can't let it go then)) in color, not just B&W.
- >And what can I say?? It sure did improve on the graphics. When I played it on
- >my friends 1.2 A500, I got 16-color dithered graphics. Ok, but nothing
- compared
- >to, my 32 color much less dithered graphics when on my 2.0 operating system.
- > I played mine from my harddrive and I wanted to look through the thing
- >to find out how in the world they did it. In fact, they didn't have to make
- thre
- >e
- >versions at all. They basically made the highest color version and then it
- >dithered more and more as you went lower in your Kickstart version because
- they
- >assumed if you measure the graphics library version, it can tell you something
- >about the amiga. All unaccelerated amigas that are slower come with less than
- >2.0 operating system. Accelerated ones most often have 2.0 AGA has 3.0+.
- > I don't know if the first version did this and I'm not sure whether it
- is
- >true to include the AGA step up from the 2.0 graphics. AGA working support is
- >there(they are even listed on the box). But it'll be a little time before I
- can
- >actually test it. Probably a couple of weeks.
- > Well, about the test. In order to find out what they were doing, I had
-
- >to boot from floppy disks on my 2.0 machine to find out. Sure enough, it pops
- >up my graphics library version, tests it, and uses it. I'm happy about it. It
- >looks good. This game really gives incentive for 2.0 or aga machines depending
- >on what you have below it. This is what I wanted, absolutely OS friendly.
- >It counts as the fastest OS friendly simulator out there and beats the
- >feel of even the Dynamix polygon games in terms of speed.(Sorry Dynamix) It
- >surely uses different routines, but still is 3Space. Well, I won't compare
- >apples to oranges, giving that I like the Dynamix flight sims with the
- >accelerator, this is just speaking in terms of unnaccelerated machines.
- >It's true, if I see a game that not only uses bitmaps, but does 3Space in
- >as much detail as Dynamix does polygons, then I can compare critically and
- >take it apart to give a better speed synopsis.
- > So, I take this time to throw a warning at all of you who want to get
- >Wing Commander in the future(They will probably get this version) that OS
- >version is important for better and better graphics. 1.2 isn't bad, especially
- >in flight, but the animation graphics may look a little altered.
- >
- > ---- Hope this helps.
- > P.S. -- It's lookin pretty keen in 2.0+. Like I said, I'll give an up
- >to 2.0 ROM review of this game within a couple of days. I'll test the 3.0
- >and get back to you when I do. It maybe a couple of weeks though, I have an
- >uncle with a 4000 I can try it. If it truly does use AGA graphics modes, I'm
- >pretty sure I would be one of the first to have it, for my shipment came
- >with the first group after revisions.
- >
- I've seen Wing commander on a 4000. It still looks like 16 color dithered
- graphics to me. you sure it has better graphics under 2.+ that 1.2 or 1.3? That
- seems very odd to me.
-