🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 10:31:11 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 01:19:25 -0700 (PDT), nat...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>maanantai 16. toukokuuta 1994 5.02.53 UTC+3 Thomas Baker kirjoitti:
>
>>> 
>>> No, you are incorrect.  The PCjr didn't support anything beyond 200
>>> lines.  The highest resolutions the PCjr would do were 320x200x16 or
>>> 640x200x4. These video modes were specific to the PCjr with 128k
>>> installed.  The video port on the PCjr used a TTL RGBI interface that
>>> sported 8 colors with two intensity levels.
>
>>who cares doom sucks balls anyway it will never be considered a good game
>
>
>Gotta love Googlegroups and how it can revive 20+ year old threads ;-)
>
>Anyway, natint probably has a point. I don't think Doom or any of
>these "doom-clone" type games where you are looking out of the eyes of
>the protagonist (sort of a "first-person shooter", if you would), will
>ever catch on. They are just a flash-in-the-pan craze that will soon
>pass. 
>
>Not to mention that excessive violence. Most gamers are too
>sophisticated for that sort of stuff; I'm pretty sure future games
>will be bloodless and intellectual. And don't even get me started on
>this whole "multiplayer" thing...
>
>Mark my words; Doom will have its brief 15-minutes of fame and then
>disappear, forgotten forever never having left a trace on gaming.
>
>;-)

640x480? You'd need some kind of supercomputer to run that! ;-)

I think NASCAR Racing by Papyrus was the first game I ran at that
resolution. It looked breathtaking at the time, and chugged along on
my DX2/50 at 2fps at best.

I think I also have a Mechwarrior Manual that lists specs to run at
various resolutions and jokingly says you'll need a Cray supercomputer
to run at the max resolution.