Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!brolga!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!marlin.jcu.edu.au!cpca
From: cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Colin Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Maci
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.043257.22485@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 18 Mar 91 04:32:57 GMT
References: <4338@orbit.cts.com>
Organization: James Cook University of North Queensland
Lines: 31

In article <4338@orbit.cts.com> chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch) writes:
>farren@sat.com (Michael J. Farren) writes:
>>chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org writes:
>>>
>>>Very few games use 320x200.  almost all games use 640x200. 
>>
>>Where do you come by this "information"?  Almost all games use 320X200,
>>as the speed hit you take with 16 colors in hires mode is considerable.
>>
>
>Nearly every game i own, (over 100 of them) 95% of them use 640x200.  nearly
>all Psygnosis games use 640x200.  the only games that really don't are ports
>from EGA IBM games.
>

You must need you eyes checked....

Very few arcade games use 640*200, certainly not any of the Pygnosis games
I've seen.  The video access makes it way too slow (unless you want a 4/8
color game).

>UUCP: {amdahl!tcnet, crash}!orbit!pnet51!chucks
>ARPA: crash!orbit!pnet51!chucks@nosc.mil
>INET: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org


-- 
Colin Adams                                  Shadowplay 
James Cook University                        Amiga Developers
Computer Science Department                  
Internet : cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au