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From: sas@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Scott Sutherland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Games on supertwist display
Summary: No action: OK, but for action buy a Mac
Keywords: macintosh
Message-ID: <77046@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 90 15:40:21 GMT
References: <9640001@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Reply-To: Scott Sutherland <sas@cis.ohio-state.edu>
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Organization: Ohio State University Department of Dance
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In article <9640001@hpfcso.HP.COM> post@hpfcso.HP.COM (Dave Post) writes:
>How do games work out on a laptop with, say a supertwist display?  If I got
>a Toshiba 1000SE or a Tandy 1000 or whatever, could educational games and
>maybe, thinking games be played?  I'm not thinking of any 'action' games.

If my experience is any indication, you should have no trouble with any games
that use no animation.  Games with a *small* amount of animation are OK as
long as you can ignore the annoying smudge on the screen.  If you were looking
to run any real action games, there is only one option that I could whole-
heartedly suggest - by one of the new Mac Portables.  Nothing that I've
seen has a screen that comes even close to the quality and refresh-rate of 
the one on the Mac.  I barely notice the difference between it and the 
"real Mac" on my desk.  It has a couple of drawbacks, but IMHO the screen
is not one of them.  My only complaint with the screen is that I would
like the *option* of back-lighting it.

Just to clarify, buy a Mac Portable if you want a Mac, great games are a 
nice extra, but by themselves they are certainly not worth what Apple is 
charging.
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Scott Sutherland	sas@cis.ohio-state.edu	|  The above opinions are mine,
Staff Software Developer			|           NOT OSU's
The Ohio State University, Department of Dance	|