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From: David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (David Plummer)
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Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Maci
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Date: 18 Mar 91 04:47:28 GMT
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Dave Haynie writes:
The guts of many commercial video games, especially back in '85
when the Amiga was introduced, are far more sophisticated than your 
typical PC.
 
Case in point, I've got an Atari Tempest machine here, which, in 1979, 
ran 1024 by 800 color vector graphics.  It runs at a "Turbo" 2MHz (just 
like a 128 :-) 6502.  Best of all, since it predates FPU chips, and 
required massive vector rotations (who could store precalced in 3K?) it 
has a math BOARD about the size of the A500 motherboard.
 
I've dumped the ROMS, and its really quite elegant the way these people 
programmed, but the hardware in this machine is really quite intriguing.



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