Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!isi.edu!venera.isi.edu!jas From: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games Subject: Re: SimEarth on PBS' Computer Chronicles Message-ID: <16063@venera.isi.edu> Date: 17 Dec 90 22:23:13 GMT References: <1990Dec17.163657.14194@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Sender: news@isi.edu Distribution: comp.sys.mac.games Organization: USC-ISI Lines: 31 In-reply-to: jcoper@ccu.umanitoba.ca's message of 17 Dec 90 16:36:57 GMT In article <1990Dec17.163657.14194@ccu.umanitoba.ca> jcoper@ccu.umanitoba.ca (D. Joseph Creighton) writes: >I recently (and finally!) saw a demo of the game SimEarth on the PBS show >Computer Chronicles this past weekend. The machine they were running it >on was definately of a Mac II lineage. The multiple windows seemed to be >making the program run somewhat slow or "choppy," most likely because all >windows were being updated at the same time. > >What I'd like to know is this: Does this game run well on the older SE? I >mean, *really* well? Any problems whatsoever? > >I don't want to go out and order a game that's going to take 30 full seconds >to refresh the screen because of many background tasks. >--- >+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >| D. Joseph Creighton | Department of Computer Services | >| | University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada | >+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ There is an option in SImEarth where only the forground window is updated contstantly. This keeps you from hanging around while background windows update. On my Mac II, the delay for the latter is erceptible. On a Plus or 512, I assume it would be annoying. jas -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey A. Sullivan | Senior Systems Programmer jas@venera.isi.edu | Information Sciences Institute jas@isi.edu DELPHI: JSULLIVAN | University of Southern California