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From: devries@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Alan DeVries)
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Subject: Re: Write Mode 1 on EGA/VGA cards
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Date: 17 Apr 91 19:00:38 GMT
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In article <1991Apr17.154316.9832@watcgl.waterloo.edu> anicolao@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Alex Nicolaou) writes:
>In article <1991Apr17.135925.9063@bhpmrl.oz.au> paulg@bhpmrl.oz.au 
>	(Paul Gallagher) writes:
>>
>>Do it ALL in asm. I thought good graphics were ONLY done in assembler!
>>
>>I'm convinced there's a forgotten market out there for good animation etc
>>that CAN run on an XT. 
>
> ** The market for games is small small. When was the last time you BOUGHT
a game? I imagine it is only the established games companies that can afford to 
>create libraries good enough to run from an XT upwards.

   As the owner of an XT, I've noticed that even established game
companies can't write versions of their games which run well on the XT,
they're all too slow.  :-(

                                             Alan