Re: Doom Conversion (was Dragons Lair

[fw060@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jason Thomas)]

 >Um...  I have a GS, I love my GS, but I'd just like to make this
 >comment to bring all of you back to reality.  Doom runs under it's own
 >32 bit OS on PCs, and does _not_ use floating point, so it can run fine
 >on a 486sux.  The problem is this...  A 486 25 is not only faster than
 >the fastest GS, but even the slowest video still has an 8mhz bus
 >bandwith to play with (ISA)  The GS's bus is like 1 or 2mhz.  Doom
 >could not be ported (most importantly because of the
 >32 bit issue.)  Be happy you have wolf 3d.  I'd say that the GS
 >community needs to do something a little more productive, like fiddle
 >with what things are feasable with the SS or TR, or generally keep
 >sights set on feasable things such as TCP/IP, or even a new OS. 
 >(Linux?  :) )  The fax software is the perfect example of this.  Maybe
 >a decent idea would be to start up that emulator project again.  GS
 >doom would certainly be possible on a virtual GS with an effective
 >speed of 60mhz or so (I'm thinking of the future here... with 150mhz
 >Pentiums and the like)   :)

Ok dude, Here's some info for ya:>
A 20Mhz ][gs is FASTER than a 25Mhz 486.
and as far as Video: Second Sight and TurboRez.
Now, the bus issue, good point, I mean we FINNALY have a decent speed
65C816, BUT our bus is REALLY messed up. Next thing I'd LOVE to
see is a new (read MUCH FASTER) bus.

And as far as Pentium goes: you have GOT to be joking!
I'll let you in on a little secret, they have had the 150Mhz pentium for
over a year now, and it's STILL not in production. Why?
they are simply too hot. BTW: what do you call a laptop pentium? 
Naw, I don't want to get that much into pentium bashing.

But I'd LOVE to see GS/OS ported over for PowerPC, or some other
RISC based machine. GS/OS was made around a computer with only
2.7Mhz, and it runs like a jackrabbit on a 7Mhz machine, imagine
on a PPC? Of course it will have to be done in native format,
but imagine how FAST it would be! and it would also be free from our
bus, and have at least SVGA quality. (Quickdraw would have to be rewritten,
forget patched versions of it)