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From: c60c-3aw@web-2c.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: why, why, why
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Date: 2 Nov 88 21:54:16 GMT
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In article <881101231615609.AGBK@RAI.CC.FSU.EDU> GUIDO@FSU.BITNET (---------the sacred personified---------) writes:
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>I bought this machine becuase of it's amazing graphics and superb sound
>capabilities, but so far, it seems to me that I should have bought an
>ST.  There are very few things that I can do on my GS that cannot be done
>on an ST.  the reverse is not true at all.  I am sure, of course, that much

I'm still wondering what the //gs was supposed to compete with.  Maybe it was
just supposed to be the super educational computer for the '90s.  The //e
does just fine...

>of the problem lies in the slow(is 2.5mhz slow?) chip speed, but so what.
>I saw some pretty amazing stuff on the old II+ before it entered the
>silicon graveyard...stuff that was not as graphically good, but the ideas
>could have been expanded to the GS and made even better...seems to me that

I have yet to see an arcade game that uses the normal hires screen, but is
written in 65816 code and uses the //gs' sound capabilities.  Such a game
would be extremely fast and very fun to play... ever try F-15 Strike Eagle
with the //gs accelerated?  (center the joystick around 72,72 instead of
128,128).

>zaphodian Beeblebrox
>"Intelligence is not a prerequisite for life"

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