Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!olivea!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!santra!santra!tjantune From: tjantune@niksula.hut.fi (Timo Jantunen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: IBM a great game machine Message-ID: Date: 9 Nov 90 11:21:12 GMT References: <9240@aggie.ucdavis.edu> <11479@hubcap.clemson.edu> Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology Lines: 66 In-Reply-To: ddyer@hubcap.clemson.edu's message of 8 Nov 90 19:30:15 GMT I'll probably make an electrical suicide, but... I own both Amiga and PC (386/20Mhz). In article <11479@hubcap.clemson.edu> ddyer@hubcap.clemson.edu (Doug) writes: >kuan@iris.ucdavis.edu (Frank [Who me?] Kuan) writes: >>Saw this hilarious article in rec.games: >>[stuff deleted] >>>stuff supports 256 colors and various sound boards; they are one of the >>>[now many] companies who are finally showing that the PC makes an excellent >>>gaming machine. >I owned an IBM and ULTIMA IV for it. It was OK because it was harddrive >installable. The sound was similar to the apple version, but I was dissapointed >that the c=64 was better! Ultima IV is old game, have you seen Ultima VI (not the cracked versions, but the final versions) ? >The graphics were ok. That 256 color res. is MCGA (or a digital equivalent >on the VGA) which is 320*200 or something like that -- with the CPU worrying >about all that AND sound. It paused a lot, obviously, for a good "fart" >as you put it, because sound was such a CPU intensive thing. >Chow If the CPU is 20Mhz 80386 it is about 3 to 6 times faster than 8Mhz 68000 it has more time to do all things. Of course Amiga special hardware can do things faster, for example blitter can move data more quickly than 386. If PC has some sound card, it can handle music through it (and if one plays with PC he HAS a sound card). The games available for PC are also diffrent from those available for Amiga. For PC is more RGB or simulator -style games, for Amiga more arcade style games. PC is better for playing such games, because almost all PC:s have hard disk, so multiload games are more fun to play (or do anyone play Ultima VI with 7 DD disks?), and almost any game can be installed to hard disk. Simulators are also faster (of course if one has a fast PC). Another problem in Amiga is pirates (it's not Amigas fault, but still), which are now slowing Amiga games production. Amiga has it's special hardware what it comes to music and graphics, so it is _MUCH_ better in games that uses them (fortunately most games aren't anymore translated directly from ST). Amiga is superior to all other computers in this area (for example Shadow of the Beast is impossible to translate to any other machine, without loosing it's 'spirit'). So:PC (a fast one) is better in some games, and Amiga is better in other games. All of these are *only* my opinions. (And I still play Flood in Amiga, and MechWarrior in PC). -- Timo Jantunen : Every time you try to operate one of these weird Kilonkallio 10 h 82 : black controls that are labelled in black on a 02610 ESPOO : black background, a little black light lights Email: : up black to let you know you've done it. What tjantune@niksula.hut.fi : is this? Some kind of galactic hyperhearse? -Z.B.