Re: What do you do with an Apple //?

[nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)]

spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote,
in response to my reply:
>>
>>>Dump the bloated OS and hit the system more on the metal with games,
>>>and the GS can't hold a candle to that PC-- 386/33s (maybe 2/3 the
>>>speed of a 486/25) can handle DOOM fullscreen. The GS is having BIG
>>>problems with Wolf, a far simpler design.
>>
>>Nate, I have to contest that statement just a bit.  I've run Wolf
>>on both systems and at 13.75MHz, the GS version runs as fast as the
>>PC version.  Now the '486 game boots from DOS and is "on the metal,"
>>but since Bill and Eric play by the rules, the GS version runs under
>>GS/OS.  This time, the GS version is more bloated, correct?  Yet the
>>GS still keeps up.  I call that impressive.
>
>    If you want want to compare frame-rates (which is also important to
>consider), Wolfenstein 3-D running on a PC is much smoother than the GS
>port, especially when you play full-screen. Also remember the GS port
>uses larger scaled bitmaps than the PC version, you'll notice textures
>have a more blocky/chunky appearence (which was done to speed things
>up, but unfortunately sacrifies smoothness and image appearence). Even
>with my 15 MHz GS, I find the frame-rate unacceptable at full-screen,
>so I shrink it down a few sizes (it's very playable full-screen, but
>I wouldn't really call it smooth or flowing). The PC is also moving
>around 256 colors while the GS is only moving 16.


I think that you are forgetting one thing: my PC only does 16shades of
gray.  Wolf for the PC (and I only have the evaluation version with
six levels...yes Nate, I didn't buy the full program, because I tend
to get tired of shallow shoot-em-up blood and guts games) configures
itself for your display.  My PC was certainly _not_ moving around
256 colors.  In fact, whenever I try to fool software by saying I
have a 256 color display, the computer usually just does not work or
gives an error message.  This sucks too because I really wanted to
try out Toyland for OS/2.

I'm only relating what I see: that GS Wolf keeps up with PC Wolf
on my systems.  Your systems have a much wider performance gap
(>100MHz Pentium vs. 15MHz GS) than mine (25MHz 486 without any
hardware graphics accelerator vs. 13.75MHz GS).

-Scott G.