Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!mips!pacbell.com!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!skink.cis.ohio-state.edu!watters From: watters@skink.cis.ohio-state.edu (david r watters) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Neo Geo Message-ID: <87043@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 7 Jan 91 06:50:05 GMT References: <6725@crash.cts.com> <4563@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1014@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: david r watters Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 41 In article <1014@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> ifarqhar@sunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Ian Farquhar) writes: >In article <4563@vela.acs.oakland.edu> hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland) writes: >>HAM mode uses. The large palette makes from some nice screens. And >>yes, it can address up to 330 megaBYTES. >Well, as the Neo Geo uses a 68000, which can only address 16M, we can >assume that the 330M (which frankly I do not believe) is only either >addressable by the graphics and sound hardware, or by bank switching. >Another thing that makes me very suspicious is that 330M is not a power >of 2. My information is that the current carts contain up to 6Mbytes of >ROM. Although I have said that it is 330megabits, The 68000 is there to execute code and such. There is an array of custom graphics and sound support chips that do all the important stuff including hardware scalling. >I don't. The games, at the moment, are pretty dismal, and the actual >animation hardware is reportedly not that hot. As for the claimed >"wonderful graphics", all the games I have seen seemed to be badly drawn >and particularly poorly animated. BOO HISSS! The animated characters in baseball are unsurpased in any baseball I have seen! Such as the guy running back to catch a fly near the warning track. You can make him climp up the wall to try and stop a homerun. If you keep going up he will fall into the stands. If you don't make him go up the wall, he will slam into it and fall down. >>Seeing as the same hardware is what they are using in >>the arcades, they plan to have the arcades as well as video stores et >>al rent the carts to overcome the high price of them. >So what? There are A500 motherboards in lots of arcade machines too. True. This doesn't say anything about either. You all know what an amiga can do, so just go to an arcade or store and check out the NeoGeo. >Except for the number of colors, the Amiga *does* come close. This is obviously a religious statement and should be weighed as such. -- "All of us get lost in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer by the stars. All of us do time in the gutter, dreamers turn to look at the cars!" - RUSH David watters@cis.ohio-state.edu "It's 12:35... and Michigan STILL sucks." _-_-_-__---_---_---__-_-_-____ TurboExpress : The Neo*Geo of portables _____