Re: My Pitfall II Review

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From: dav... Dave Glue
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 1995 00:00

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suf...@cris.com (Jason Zisk) wrote:

>Windowed is slower for you?  On mine I swear it runs faster...or at
>least the same speed.  Only time it slows down is when I am
>downloading or doing something in the background, then I switch to
>full screen.
>	486/100 Mach64 Vid Card 16 megs ram.

The video card has a lot to do with this most likely.  I have a DX2/66
with 8 megs, and it certainly is slower windowed- even full screen
"fast" isn't incredibly smooth on my machine- certainly not Jazz
Jackrabbit quality scrolling or anything.

But as far as I know, Pitfall doesn't even use Directdraw, let alone
using the graphics processor in any Windows accelerator cards.  I
heard it was only WinG- is this true?  Impressive if so.

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