Re: Awks stuff

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes...

>tpe123@gaol.com (escobedo) wrote:
> 
>>"But can I play DOOM?
> 
>Since you have an Apple IIGS, have you seen the FREE version
>of Wolfenstein 3D?  Really something, and the sound effects
>are better than the Wintel and Macintosh versions.

    Wolfenstein 3D is a major achievement for the Apple IIgs,
and it does have better sound effects than previous ports of
the game, but the frame-rate (and number of colors used) are
much less than the PC and Mac versions.

    Heh, I doubt many current game players are interested in 
Wolf 3D and DOOM today though, "Unreal" is the latest in the
next generation 3-D style games (Carmageddon II looks like 
another interesting one). :)

>Trying to convince someone to buy an old Apple IIGS for that
>purpose does seem rather strange.  However, a NEW repackaged
>unit sold as an all in one computer for the low end is NOT.  That's
>when the Apple IIGS was the state of the art (mid 80s), there were
>still millions of people buying the by then "obsolete" Commodore 64.

    I'm not sure if there was a time the IIGS was truely state-of-
the-art in every possible sense. Its color depth and resolution was
behind the Amiga, and the Atari ST had a higher vertical resolution.
The 65C816 was certainly not the fastest or most powerful processor
at the time either, and even the Commodore 64 offered sprites for
moving graphics around. A lot of these limitation I blame on Apple
for not providing though. :/

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca