Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sugar!karl
From: karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dragon's Lair
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Date: 22 Dec 88 13:50:57 GMT
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I haven't seem Dragon's Lair yet, but I assume it does long, contiguous track-
by-track loads from the disk.  With this sort of thing, one can achieve 
several times higher disk i/o performance than through the filesystem.
This sort of thing is essential for DL.  One person already was saying disk
load times get annoying.

As to whether a "regular" game boots in 35 seconds or a minute is not, in
my opinion, so critical of an issue.

It looks to me like DL had to be totally hacked up to get it to have even
reasonable performance.  From what I've heard it's astonishing, so what
the hey.

Do they support systems with scads of memory?  My 5 MB system ought to be
able to fit most of it in RAM.  If not, too bad and this is part of the
problem with games that take over the machine, they don't make use of
extra resources on slicked-out machines.
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