Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!karazm.math.uh.edu!jet From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Which games really use the amiga's unique abilities? Message-ID: <1990Nov14.050933.27731@lavaca.uh.edu> Date: 14 Nov 90 05:09:33 GMT References: Sender: nntppost@lavaca.uh.edu (NNTP Posting Service) Organization: University of Houston -- Department of Mathematics Lines: 34 In article jkh@bambam.pcs.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >Having recently purchased "Their Finest Hour" (a review is forthcoming >as soon as I get through enough of the game to provide a well balanced >critique) where one cannot help but notice the rather PC'ish graphics >(both in resolution and speed). Get a faster machine. TFH does *realtime texture mapping*, ok? This is not something for a 68000-based machine to do. I played it on an A3000 and it blew me away! There was *no* noticing the screen updates. The game responed faster than any other flight sims I've ever played. (Except for flight sims on jillion dollar 3D modeling workstations that could display > 100,000 shaded polygons a *second*. :-) So just chill. Better yet, find me any PClone-based flight sim that texture maps plane features (camoflage, insignia), or that keeps track of *EVERY MOVING OBJECT* (including individual bullets!) via a "flight camera" and lets you play the "movie" back from any perspective (following any vehicle, or roaming free in space) including the point-of-view of a falling bomb! (You can also save/load the films to disk.) I have only one complaint about TFH: while it's in stereo, the engine noise seems to come only from one speaker. Solution: run the Amiga sound through $5k worth of reverb, delay and equalizing equipment and play it over 100W of good amp and speakers. :-) -- J. Eric Townsend Internet: jet@uh.edu Bitnet: jet@UHOU Systems Manager - University of Houston Dept. of Mathematics - (713) 749-2120 EastEnders list: eastender@karazm.math.uh.edu Skate UNIX(r)