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Re: VGA - SVGA: VGA sucks? No way...

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From: Dave Glue
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 00:00
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Kerry <ke...@fhpv.umb.sk> wrote in article
<32A54E10...@fhpv.umb.sk>...

> > Computers are faster- you just don't have one of them.  :)  People with
> > good Pentiums can play Duke at 800*600 at over 30fps, and Quake at
512*384
> > smoothly (more so if you have a Verite-based board).  VGA does suck-
may be
> > acceptable for you, but once you get a machine where you can run SVGA
> > smoothly it's hard to go back.
> 
> Oh, vga sucks? really?... and how you can run vga-only game in svga?

Er- you can't.  What's your point?  VGA does suck.  It looks awful.  We
accepted it because it was the best at the time- it's not anymore, and few
games these days don't have an SVGA option.

> tell me why all the multi-resolution games are so poorly designed
> - Quake: run at 320x200, burns good, menus, fonts, panels, and so,
>   are good. Switching to 640x480, everyting(still talking
>  about menus,etc) is smaaaller, and when switching to 1024x768,
>  can ya see your ammo, health, etc?

Yep.  That's my main problem with Quake- small status bars.  We should
avoid high resolutions at all costs.

Cripes.
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From: "Dave Glue" <dav...@interlog.com>
Subject: Re: VGA - SVGA: VGA sucks? No way...
Date: 1996/12/04
Message-ID: <01bbe236$ebcb4820$0100007f@dave>
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