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Article #1234Re: Origin & "Pushing the limits"
From: Craig Lemas
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 14:10
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 14:10
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Animesh Karna <ka...@pobox.upenn.edu> wrote.... > Games like Ultima 8, however, had me wondering. It was horribly slow, > but I didn't see ANYTHING that warranted that. It looked nice, had nice > sound effects, and good animation, but I've seen other games with all > this that ran much faster. This one had me feeling like the processor > power was being wasted, and that "Oh, we're just trying to push the > limits" was a cop-out for not optimizing their code. Trust me, ULTIMA 8 even ran slow on my 486dx2/50 and dx2/66. And I also have a Diamond VIPER VLB as well as a 4 meg IDE VLB controller. The game is just slow and was not written very well. Craig Lemas QA Technician, CLI <cle...@creaf.com>
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!newshost.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!barrnet.net!creaf.com!cli.creaf.com!usenet From: Craig Lemas <cle...@creaf.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg Subject: Re: Origin & "Pushing the limits" Date: Thu, 22 Dec 94 07:10:36 PDT Organization: Creative Labs Lines: 20 Message-ID: <NEWTNews.3055.788109134.clemas@clihost.cli.creaf.com> References: <3d9j8s$d04@netnews.upenn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: clemas.cli.creaf.com Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: NEWTNews & Chameleon -- TCP/IP for MS Windows from NetManage Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit