Ringworld and HALO

External Since: May 14, 2005 Posts: 63

In article <gJqdnYe0VbZO2C3fRVn-iA RemoveThis @speakeasy.net>, Erik Max Francis wrote:
> Not sure how someone can say that, since it ran at TV resolution. Even
> on a PC with higher resolution, the models and textures weren't anymore
> detailed.
>
Being an innocent bystander in this ... could it be that you were
using a system without a 3-d graphics processing unit onboard? so the game
program substituted a (pixellated) texture map where on higher-capability
hardware it would have tried to get a "grass" model rendered. I'm not
totally innocent in the concepts of the last 5 years of graphics, I'm just
not terribly interested. If I want FPS-shoot-'em-up, then what's wrong
with "Elite" (provided you can slow the processor down to the requisite
4.77 MHz)?
One of my friends went as far as loaning me his Voodoo graphics
card for a couple of months to try to persuade me to get one ... to be
stymied because when I walked into the shop his fellow salesman refused to
give me the 5% "Charlie special" discount. I declined the deal, returned
his Voodoo, and didn't bother to get a better graphics card for another 2
years (when I couldn't get anything more basic than a Voodoo-2).
Anyway, games ... minimal interest. Has someone come up with a game
that's more absorbing than Civilisation? That I can take to work and run
from a floppy?

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Aidan Karley,
Aberdeen, Scotland,
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Written at Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:16 +0100

External Since: Jul 09, 2003 Posts: 169

Aidan Karley wrote:

> Being an innocent bystander in this ... could it be that you were
> using a system without a 3-d graphics processing unit onboard? so the game
> program substituted a (pixellated) texture map where on higher-capability
> hardware it would have tried to get a "grass" model rendered. I'm not
> totally innocent in the concepts of the last 5 years of graphics, I'm just
> not terribly interested. If I want FPS-shoot-'em-up, then what's wrong
> with "Elite" (provided you can slow the processor down to the requisite
> 4.77 MHz)?

No, I have a top of the line system, and play almost every FPS game that
comes out on the PC market.

> Anyway, games ... minimal interest. Has someone come up with a game
> that's more absorbing than Civilisation? That I can take to work and run
> from a floppy?

I doubt there are much of any games of the scope of Civilization that
you could fit on a floppy. There are lots of "small" games, often sold
by shareware, which are usually puzzle games but often are a lot of fun
and are well-produced. (Even those won't fit on a floppy.)

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