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I suspect the mix of CPUs in use back then had an impact. After all, you had the 6502, Z80, 68000, and various x86 generation all bouncing around (the 486 was
by digi_owl 10y ago
I suspect the mix of CPUs in use back then had an impact.
After all, you had the 6502, Z80, 68000, and various x86 generation all bouncing around (the 486 was introduced in 1989, this game was released in 1993).
The Sega Genesis/Mega Drive for example had both a 68000 and a Z80 inside it, while the SNES used a 6502 clone.
- vertex-four 10y agoThe Mega Drive's Z80 was essentially just powerful enough to play music and sounds - it couldn't really be used for much else, leaving the 68k to focus on gameplay and manipulating the sprite-based Video Display Processor.
- boomlinde 10y agoOnly relatively speaking. The MD runs the games of the previous generation (Master System) natively on the Z80. The hardware of the MD, including the VDP and audio, is basically a superset of that of the MS.
- vertex-four 10y agoWhile true, people expected better audio out of the Genesis than the Master System, which involved more processing power.
- khedoros1 10y ago> while the SNES used a 6502 clone The NES used a 6502 clone, with a few minor changes (no BCD mode, I think some changes to interrupts, addition of sound-generation hardware). The SNES used a 65c816 clone, from the same family of chips.