Dumbest game system/computer
Fortran Dragon
My glass typewriter shows T3Dy saying...
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> actually, the Mac has gotten pretty rad. The new I-Mac 233 MHx machine which
> is about to be released beat the new Intel 400MHz in a blind speed test. At a
> trade show my uncle attended, the two computers ran against each other, no-one
> at the show knew which was which. They thought the faster computer was the
> Intel one, but in fact it was the Mac. Heck, the new Mac might even be able to
> run U:A.
With 4% of the market, I doubt too many companies are going to waste
resources on the Mac. Developing games for the Mac is a labor of love.
Which doesn't cut in profit-oriented Corporate America.
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Samurai
Quoth "Ophidian Dragon" <dev...@ix.takethisout.netcom.com>:
>Will <ax...@SPAMBLOCKtexas.net> wrote ...
>
>> At the time, the Vectrex was and still is the only vector-based
>> platform other than owning an actual arcade machine.
Wasn't Nintendo's ill-fated Virtual Boy based on vector graphics?
>> Games like Battlezone, Asteroids, Rip Off, Star Castle and Space
>> Wars could actually be played exactly as they were in the arcades.
>> The Atari and Colecovision didn't "blow this thing away" since
>> they couldn't even attempt to offer these games at anywhere near
>> arcade quality.
>
>Didn't the arcade games have color?
The vector version of Star Wars certainly did, but I'm not sure about
the ones cited above. I wasn't really into arcade-games when they
were first around.
(Even if I had been, I wouldn't have been tall enough to reach the
controls. ;)
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