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Re: My Pitfall II Review

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From: hu... Manu Kumar
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1995 00:00
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As its a WIN/95 game what will matter a lot is the speed and quality of 
the DIRECTDRAW drivers Pitfall wil inevitably use, as there is a HUGE 
variation in the quality of Directdraw implementations from videocard 
to videocard.

The card at the moment that's fastest with Directdraw is the ATI 
mahc64, probably because directdraw was developed on it, and because it 
was the first card for which directdraw drivers (beta) were released, 
others followed months later.


something to consider when shopping for a videocard, 

m
Jason Zisk 
(suf...@cris.com) 
wrote: : tmb...@rs5.tcs.tulane.edu (Thomas Boyingon) wrote:

: >Well I got Pitfall II along with my copy of Win95 (it was $35 when
: >you bought win95).  Overall, the game is very good.  If you spent
: >hours playing Pitfall on the Atari then I think you will like this
: >game.  You can play it in a window or in full screen mode.  Windowed
: >its slower (but this is almost better in some places).  The graphics

: 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.

: - Jason Zisk a.k.a. Sufferin' Pup
: - Sophmore at the University of Hartford College of Arts and Sciences
: - email: suf...@cris.com

:     // It is really sad that dialog boxes in windows have to
:     // commit suicide so that the program may continue.
:     EndDialog(hwnd,TRUE);
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