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From: tif@doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul Chamberlain)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Mario Bothers
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Date: 17 Jul 90 22:06:48 GMT
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In article <9926@brazos.Rice.edu> cliffc@cimbria.rice.edu (Cliff Click) writes:
>In article <2779@awdprime.UUCP> tif@doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul Chamberlain) writes:
>>In article <64280@sgi.sgi.com> bron@bronze.wpd.sgi.com (Bron Campbell Nelson) writes:
>>>Video game software is some of the ugliest
>>>and most arcane assembler there is.
>>Really?  Is that changing?  I am seeing more and more of the popular
>>games very accurately duplicated on radically different hardware ...
>... Mac, ... PC with 512K, Amiga, ... Apple II or Commadore 64

I was more interesed in, and the discussion (IMHO) was more in reference
to, real game machines.  Arcades, Nintendo, etc.  From my observation, there
are certainly more Mario Brothers Nintendo cartridges than ANY PC game,
maybe even all PC games combined.  But Mario Brothers has been very faith-
fully reproduced on real arcade hardware (which came first?) and some other
dedicated game machines.  But, and this is my point, the arcade hardware
seems to be incredibly more sophisticated.  Thus, a good modular
implementation would have been a near-necessity for the port.

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