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From: u9050728@cs.uow.edu.au (Shane Kelvin Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: 320X200X256 graphics (was: Ultima 6)
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.072330.20136@cs.uow.edu.au>
Date: 3 Jun 91 07:23:30 GMT
References: <1991Jun1.083051.24202@clark.edu> <25194@well.sf.ca.us>
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia
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tm@well.sf.ca.us (Toshi Morita) writes:




>geniusman@pro-hindugods.cts.com (Chris Moylan) writes:

>>I agree wholeheartedly with Jimmy's sarcastic comments.  It is EXTREMELY
>>easy to port IBM 320x200x256 graphics into GS format and they would look
>>exactly the same, or better because the IBM only has 256 colors in it's
>>palette in that mode (I think).  Anyway, 3200 color GS games could also be
>>created, but no software developers want to deal with GS specific
>>graphic systems.  Maybe they should comission someone who cares about the
>>GS to make a game GS specific, but that might cost money, so it may never
>>happen.

>I beg to differ on a few points.

>1) 320x200x256 graphics (MCGA) uses 15 bits for RGB. There are 256 colors
>displayable simultaneously from a palette of  32768 available colors.

      Actually 320x200x256 has a palette range of over 256,000 compared
to the GS's 4096. 


>2) 3200 color GS game? I don't think there would be enough cycles left to
>run a
>game on par with "Wing Commander" or "Battle of Britain". Maybe "Little
>Brickout". :)

>3) Most IBM games (maybe more than half) are written in C. How many good C
>compilers are available for the Apple //gs?


>tm@well.sf.ca.us
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