Re: WOLF3D fot A2 GS

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:

>In article supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes...
>
>>Like I was discussing with another user in email, if you constantly
>>pepper your thoughts with little comments like "but it is much
>>faster on a Wintel" or "but the resolution is much better on a
>>Wintel" you begin missing the point....the game was actually
>>successfully WRITTEN for the IIGS.  If you start making
>>comparisons, you diminish the scale of that accomplishment
>>(look at it another way, if they can write the Wintel version to
>>be as OPTIMIZED as the IIGS version, it would run a hundred
>>times faster).
>
>    I'll agree with you there. If you were that picky about
>comparing games side by side with current day PC's, then it
>would be absolutely pointless writing any games for the IIgs
>as it wouldn't compare. People are still writing games for
>the GS though (even if ever so few :/) because it is cool
>to see the machine pushed to do them.

You did it again.  ;-)  Even when you are claiming to agree
that it is useless to compare a Pentium to a GS you are
doing just that.  Can't help it, eh?

>    The thing though is there is acceptable speed for a game,
>and unacceptable speed for a game. When you have trouble
>playing a game or can't get enjoyment out of it due to a
>speed problem, that is when it becomes unacceptable. In the
>real world, Wolf 3D has a poor frame rate on my 15 MHz IIgs
>(lower than even a 25 MHz 386) BUT the game is still playable

I don't have a 25Mhz 386 to compare, but that is also quite
irrelevant because the 386 was not the IIgs contemporary.
I have two 1986 vintage IBM computers, one XT and one AT
(the 8Mhz model).  Even at the stock 2.8Mhz speed, the
IIgs unzips a file and converts a jpeg graphic FASTER than
my XT.  It does most things similar to my AT in speed....and
I'm talking about WITHOUT the accelerator.  Neither can run
Wolf 3D AT ALL.

THAT's the amazing thing about the IIgs being able to do it.

Don't get me wrong, I'm just as excited about clock chipping
a PowerMac to get it to run faster or drooling over the latest
Cyrix M2 or AMD K6 designs.  The only chip maker's products
I don't like are from Intel because of how it is trying to choke
off the competitors.  It is just that you don't have to convince
us in every thread about how great these other computers are.