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From: silos@bench.sublink.ORG (Paolo Pennisi)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Mario Bothers
Summary: HLL game programming.
Message-ID: <460@bench.sublink.ORG>
Date: 29 Jul 90 01:03:17 GMT
References: <2767@awdprime.UUCP> <64280@sgi.sgi.com> <2779@awdprime.UUCP> <64415@sgi.sgi.com>
Organization: Paolo Pennisi, Milano Italia
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In article <64415@sgi.sgi.com>, bron@bronze.wpd.sgi.com (Bron Campbell Nelson) writes:
> 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:
> > >Really?  Is that changing?  I am seeing more and more of the popular
> > >games very accurately duplicated on radically different hardware
[...]
> > 
> > I've worked on a few such games.  Some of the games are very well written in
> > a HLL, with a few assembler routines to hack out such stuff as graphics,
> > timer & other interrupt handling, sound, keyboard, mouse, etc.  In short, many
> 
[...]
> and has vaugely similar graphics."  I'm glad to hear the hardware has
> improved, and the bad old days are drifting away (not that the Nintendo
> is exactly a piece of cake from all I hear).
> 
> --
> Bron Campbell Nelson
> bron@sgi.com  or possibly  ..!ames!sgi!bron
> These statements are my own, not those of Silicon Graphics.

I'm glad to see that comp.arch talks about video games, a world of architectures
completely different from everyday's arch... but with very interesting
quirks and tricks.
I'm part of a team developing a complete game develpment system to allow
game programmers to develop, produce and distribute realist 3D games using
only high level programming. We are designing the software and hardware
architecture which will make possible that goal.
The programmer will work with high level C library for every need of the game,
 developing on a platform which, under few changes could even be the target
machine for running the game in coin-op arcades. Based around a 386 pc,
with a multitasking kernel, and a set of dedicated hardware to perform all
the tasks of gemometric projections, clipping, shading etc, and the heavy
burden of updating a med res screen (800x600x256[16M]) at realtime speed,
this game development system will allow the programmer to avoid even a single
line of assembly language, giving at the same time a optimized platform for
thousand or realistic 3-dimensional games such as fligth simulators, car
race simulators, tank simulators etc.
A lot of water has flown from Atari 2600 times.
  Paolo.
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