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>A stock Amiga 600 can play a Commander Keen-style game just as smoothly as a faster PC. Look... comparing Amiga platformers to Commander Keen is insulting. Am
by whywhywhywhy 2y ago
>A stock Amiga 600 can play a Commander Keen-style game just as smoothly as a faster PC.
Look... comparing Amiga platformers to Commander Keen is insulting. Amiga had "Genesis style games" not "Commander Keen style games"
Amiga games looked and sounded like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFtLGDywZlg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFtLGDywZlg
Not this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKHUOKVzo0Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKHUOKVzo0Q
- floren 2y agoAnd Keen 4 was more fun.
- snvzz 2y agoPolitely disagree.
- EB-Barrington 2y ago[dead]
- snvzz 2y ago>just as smoothly as a faster PC No. actually smooth, unlike a PC. One game frame per each frame sent to the screen. Which the PC would only achieve many years later when it got raw power via 3d acceleration.
- zozbot234 2y agoAIUI the main limitation with early PC graphics was (1) it was a dumb framebuffer and (2) bandwidth from the system to said framebuffer was too low to replace the entire screen in a single frame. This only really got solved comprehensively in the late 1990s or so, hence prior to that timeframe you were always more or less relying on some kind of "trick" to achieve smooth video output.