Re: Wolf. 3D IIGS - NEWS Update!

[ballweb@PEAK.ORG (Brian Ballweber)]

Cold Fusion (minuet@indy.net) wrote:
: What I think is not too smart is spending a lot of cash to get them to do 
: things current machines do normally, like the Second Sight card. You can get 
: a basic 486/66 for around $500, a SS will almost cost you half that. Or 

Letsee things a 486/66 does normally, uhhh, nothing...  Last I checked most
486/66 boards come with a lot of slots, but no video or audio hardware.  A
decent SVGA card <cuz VGA is just too lame for a real PC user> will cost
upwards of $100 plus ram, unless your one of those people who gets generic
crap.

: spending $40 on a washed up shareware game "just cause it could be done". Why 
: not enjoy your Apples, pick up parts and warez for next to nothing at 
: shows and such, and do the stuff you wish a GS could do on a PC for half the 
: price. Any money you spend on a GS will be lost, when you try to sell it 

Most of the PC stuff I see for "next to nothing" is worth about "next to 
nothing".  It is true that software is more abundant for the PC than the 
GS, but the price you will pay is in hardware not software.  To get a decent
PC system you will need the following:

DX4/100      <cuz Mechwarrior on anything less than a DX4/100 is pathetic,
              mostly due to a crufty 3d engine, and you can forget about 
              playing it in any SVGA mode unless you have a pentium>

Sound Card   <you will need 16 bit sound, 8-bit sound has been deemed 
              lame by the PC community, funny tho how they still use the
              same dorky $5 mic to record 16-bit noise as opposed to 8-bit>

Video Card   <a true color video card of course, with a couple megs of ram
              on it because screen refreshes suck without it>

Hard Drive   <better pick up a couple gigs, the PC world dosen't seem 
              able to make games/apps that take less than 20 megs of 
              space each>      

Monitor      <oh joy, better get that .28 pitch NI 1280x1024 capable,
              17" to 20" behemoth, we wouldn't want our games to look
              fuzzy now would we>

Oh btw - all these better be on a PCI bus system or else you risk being 
obsolete in the next 20 days.  Funny how the $500 DX2/66 system is now
a $4000 game machine, gee could've went out and gotten a Sega Saturn
or Playstation for $300...

: someday no one will care that it can display jpegs or play Wolf 3D, because 
: there is a limit on how much people will spend on "dead" computers. I own 

Hmm, how much will we spend on dead computers, let me ask you, how much 
do you expect to spend on your PC box?  I hope you realize that it is 
already probably "dead" hardware, if your running a pentium you can 
consider your self current, anything else is obviously obsolete.  <You 
can check the system requirements on the oustide of the software packages
to judge exactly how obsolete you system is at any given time>

In the long run I expect that you will spend a lot more on your PC box 
then I will spend on my GS, so who do you really think is spending more 
on a dead computer.

: both types of machines and do not feel it is a personal or spiritual conflict 
: of interest...and enjoy them both equally (some of the old Apple games are 
: STILL more fun than the new PC games, I play Lode Runner as much as I do Dark 
: Forces). There is enough room in the den for everybody. :)

I know all of the above for a fact because I also have both types of 
computers, the difference is that I don't play the "update the hardware 
game" with either of my systems.  If my hardware dosen't cut it for the 
latest game requirements thats just too bad, if I need to play games that 
badly, I'll buy a system thats designed to play games, instead of a PC 
that tries to be what it isnt.


- Brian
  Digital Exodus