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- From: charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV)
- Subject: Re: Wing Commander Demo [thoughts]
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.210148.11201@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Organization: Clemson University
- References: <1992Sep6.164448.12925@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1992Sep7.015825.28502@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca> <1992Sep7.034451.14498@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1992Sep7.141603.2679@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 21:01:48 GMT
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- cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP) writes:
-
- >As far as I know, there are 2 disks in total. How can they convert such
- >a big game into 2 disks?
-
- I dunno. Maybe they're leaving off most of the digitized sounds (the demo had
- none). Maybe they're cutting resolution in a shoddy attempt to save disk
- space?
-
- >Speed is acceptable for European games. However, if you want to play US
- >games, accelerator is a must. Wing Commander is a simulation. It needs a
- >lot of calculation for every screen's reflesh. CPU is responsible for
- >math calculation and Amiga's custom chip doesn't help at all.
-
- Does this require any more calculation than most any other flight simulator?
- I don't think WC uses much "ground detail" as do most other flight
- simulators. Also, it'd seem that there are a lot fewer complications to
- simulating space flight, unless they put planets, black holes, and stars
- all over the place. The demo was either slowed down purposely (to let us
- look at those lovely (NOT!) dithered ships), or it is IMHO the worst Amiga
- game demo in terms of animation I have ever seen (Discounting a few of the
- intro-anims.) Does the WC demo speed up any on accelerated machines?
- (just curious)
-
- More thoughts...
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