Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!lethe!geac!contact!zooid!dve From: dve@zooid.UUCP (David Mason) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: A10 Tank Killer Message-ID: Date: 12 Oct 90 21:40:11 GMT References: <90283.143445DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu> Organization: here Lines: 19 DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu (Doug Bischoff) writes: > In article <611@public.BTR.COM>, timm@public.BTR.COM (Timothy M. Maffett > timm@btr.com) says: > > > >on the back of the box are VGA pictures, so they are considerably > >nicer than what the amiga is capable of. > > Woah!!! Since when is a VGA better than an Amiga? VGA can display 256 color > at once, while the Amiga can handle 4096!!! I don't quite call that better. > Am I missing something here? > I don't know of any games (especially arcade type) that have the actual game play in 4096 colour mode. It would be too slow. Relax, though.. the VGA can display more colours but it's not too fast at it so VGA games tend to have as few objects as possible moving on the screen (and as small as possible).