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From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Sheckel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Stellar 7 re-release
Message-ID: <930@redford.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 90 15:38:55 GMT
References: <6203@crash.cts.com> <9907@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <14703@smoke.brl.mil>
Reply-To: jerry@redford.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel)
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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In article <14703@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>
>Right on!
>I estimate that a "stock" IIGS with 1.125MB of memory is fully as capable as
>a typical IBM PC clone;
>

It isn't.  Even the oldest PC clones with 8088 processors are at least twice
as fast as stock IIgs's, and the 8088 processor has a much more functional
instruction set than the '816.  That was yesterday.  Today's typical PC clone
is a 16MHz 32-bit machine with at least 2MB memory, a GUI, and graphics that
blow the IIgs away.

>
>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 agree with this.  If Atari could make, for their 8-bit computers, a nearly
perfect adaptation of Defender, and make it fit in a 16K ROM cartridge, then
certainly one could make King's Quest V or Ultima VI run on a IIgs.  I doubt
if they could swing a Wing Commander or a Stellar 7, though, simply because
of the demand on processor speed.
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