Re: Pleasantly Surprised By Defender of the Crown (IIgs)

[heuser.marcus@freenet.de]

> If we were to go back in time and re-introduce the IIGS, what ONE of
> the three items would have been the most helpful for programmers to
> give the IIGS better games?  My guess is that having some dedicated
> graphic hardware would have been the best idea as the IIGS was just
> slow and didn't have memory to accomplish things that people wanted.

I would think so, too, because with video acceleration you can cope
with a slower CPU.

Example: The SNES had some advanced (for the time) video hardware and
though it had a slower CPU than the Sega Genesis (8 MHz 68000 + Z80(?)
for sound) it compared well.

Also there weren't *that* many experienced 65816-programmers out there
(compared to all the people striving to learn 68k) - so optimized code
wasn't that common compared to the availability of 6502-people.

RAM could also have been better. At least 512K for the price they
asked, IMHO.

bye
Marcus