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From: hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: FAUG demo of Powermonger by E.A. -- long review
Keywords: simply incredible
Message-ID: <4458@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 29 Dec 90 04:52:36 GMT
References: <1990Dec5.110344.6364@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <16750@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1990Dec24.084914.18173@evax.arl.utexas.edu> <1990Dec26.123535.14512@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <22339@well.sf.ca.us>
Reply-To: hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland)
Organization: Evil Young Mutants For A Better Tomorrow.
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In article <22339@well.sf.ca.us> farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren) writes:
^>xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
^>>Uh, nope.  Take a look again at one of the snow or rainstorms and figure out
^>>how many graphic objects you see in motion.  Or, count the characters moving
^>>in a single scene, and notice there are too many for them to be sprites, so the
^>>blitter is being continually reprogrammed to restore the background and redraw
^>>the figures.
^>
^>Betcha big bucks they don't use the blitter at all.  Remember - Bullfrog is
^>an Atari ST house, and you don't use the blitter on an ST (not if you're
^>interested in compatibility, that is).

I'm willing to bet that they did. Take a look at any old Psygnosis
game or ANY Seira-Online game and you can see what happens to
animation when you don't use the blitter. I think they used it.

					-Moriland




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