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From: sschaem@starnet.uucp (Stephan Schaem)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Hires games
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.082346.27031@starnet.uucp>
Date: 19 Mar 91 08:23:46 GMT
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 You need a constant scroll for it to look good.
 Also it take twice has mutch in interlace.
 So a double buffered display use already 192000 bytes of chip
 memory.And since people develop mostly for 512k machine...
 It would take more CPU time, simply the object would be smaller.
 I was thinking of doing a cinemascope time game view, but only
 idea with horizontal scroll can be suported in that mode...
 So the flicker is defenectly here.
 also the amiga dont let you do hardware scroll in full horizontal
 screen...
 For me the best for games (with Hscroll and/or Vscroll) is a resolution
 of 288x200x6 (or taller if you have space: highscore, board).
 Mixing dualplayfield and sprite is also very nice, since you can hace
 the 32 colors on screen.

 I know of only 1 arcade machine using a screen in interlace hires.
 all the other games are lores screen! simply lots of colors!