STraTOS 1997 April & May/STraTOS 1 - 1997 April & May.iso/CD01/INTERNET/SITES/RAND/ALL96.LZH/t0210/text0026.txt

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Hi,

 e> I've been playing around with the v1,7a and 1.8a of Bad Mood (which
 e> are excellent BTW and full credit to Doug again !)

Thanks Simon, much appriciated. :)

 e> I was wondering what everyones perception of the minimum frame rate to
 e> make the game playable.

I have covered some points in another mail here which might fill you in on
some of the speed problems / solutions, so I'll try to avoid repeating
myself again here. :)


 e> Obviously you have to imagine as if you're playing the real thing.

Well, we have to try anyway... :)

 e> For me a rate of around 9 FPS is probably the bare minimum for a
 e> playable game, I also much
 e> prefer the 320 x 200 modes aswell with a little shrinking of the
 e> screen produces a good
 e> rate.

Yes, this sounds about right.

 e> Of course we all would like to run it as a constant 50 FPS ...

:)

 e> [Maybe some one could develop a Bad Mood accelerator that gets rid of
 e> certain bottlenecks
 e> ??? :-) ]

Well, that's what the DSP is supposed to be doing - but it unfortunately
can't fix the bus too. What a bummer :(


:)

We need a 68040 & nice big 32-bit local cache, that would fix things nicely!

Doug.

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