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Article #26Re: Is there a VGA version of doom?
From: Ross Ridge
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 01:29
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 01:29
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Tim O <timo56...@hotmail.com> wrote: >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 had couple of games that ran just fine at 640x480 on my old 25 MHz '386. Mind you they were both strategy games, and only one of them was 256 colour. (Cariers at War II being the 640x480x4 game, while V for Victory was the 640x480x8 game.) Ross Ridge -- l/ // Ross Ridge -- The Great HTMU [oo][oo] rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca -()-/()/ http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rridge/ db //
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