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From: ins_apw@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Philip Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Armor Alley
Message-ID: <6498@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 24 Sep 90 05:38:23 GMT
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Reply-To: ins_apw@jhunix.UUCP (Philip Wong)
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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I disagree most pointedly on some of your points.  This game most definitely
should not be 256 colors.  It's an action arcade type game that hosts up to
four players.  You want to ad 256 colors so that the whole game is slowed
down by screen redraw?  Come on!  Games like Shanghai or Ishido can easily
(and if they didn't, it's just laziness) support 8bit color (and why not
24 bit) because there is no worry about screen redraw.  Sure, games that
don't need a quick redraw rate should support 8bit color.  Arcade type games
 and especially, games that network should most defintiely not support 8bit--
unless it's taken into account and the refresh rate will not slow the game down.

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