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From: jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Armor Alley
Message-ID: <1990Oct8.094449.2061@santra.uucp>
Date: 8 Oct 90 09:44:49 GMT
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In article <7623.270D1E97@fidogate.FIDONET.ORG> Sonny.Shrivastava@f555.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Sonny Shrivastava) writes:
>I only wish the game was in 256 colors.  16 is nice,but 256 is
>better.  People keep telling me that 256 color games will run slow.
>How can this be?  Most color Mac CPUs run at 16 MHz or greater, and are
>68030 machines.  I would think they could handle such colorful
>animation.  What's the story?

I think the main reason is that NuBUS causes video card RAM to have an
access time of 300 ns. Games usually use the full 640x480 resolution
or even more. I guess you could double or triple the speed of 16 color
640x480 animations by using a 320x240 window with 256 colors.

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