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From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Stellar 7 re-release
Message-ID: <3135.27691df6@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 90 23:46:14 GMT
References: <6203@crash.cts.com> <9907@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <14703@smoke.brl.mil>
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In article <14703@smoke.brl.mil>, gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> In article <9907@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>>	I still think that Brian Greenestone or one of you other GS whizzes
>>should try to get a contract with Sierra to improve/rewrite their adventure
>>game "compiler"...  If I were currently a GS author, I would at least make the
>>attempt if I were looking for a job. Another attempt would be to get a job
>>at Origin writing Ultima V GS or Ultima VI GS or //e.
> 
> Right on!
> I estimate that a "stock" IIGS with 1.125MB of memory is fully as capable as
> a typical IBM PC clone; thus if a top-notch IIGS programmer worked on it,
> Sierra SCI (thus the majority of their recent games) and Ultima V/VI should
> be able to work nicely on a IIGS.  I don't think the //e is feasible, though,
> not so much because of slow speed (although that does hurt) as because of
> constrained RAM access -- memory management would be just too painful.

I cannot see the reasoning behind this. The current standard for a PC clone 
is at least a 286 running at 12MHz with VGA and 1 MB of memory. A IIgs 
doesn't even come close. The IIgs might have better sound, but without the 
muscle behind it, it will still be a dog. Get a life people, wake up and 
smell the coffee. The IIgs cannot compete against any of the current 
computers being produced today, except for the C-64. It is based on 
technology from the late 70's, with a few additions that were high tech in 
the mid 80's but are outdated today.

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