> On Wed, 31 May 2000, Laurens Holst wrote:
>
> > > I really hate it when in RPGs pictures are loaded whenever you talk to
> > > someone. First disadvantage is that the music is interrupted, second
is
> > > that the spinning up of the drive will take time, independent of how
> > > little data is loaded.
> >
> > One word: harddisk.
>
> Haven't got one yet. And many other people don't have one either.
A shame, really!!! IDE-interface, only 40 Euros!!!
> Actually, do all harddisks/interfaces disable the interrupts short enough
> to allow music to continue playing?
They don't disable it at all (well, maybe some very old ones).
> > Other word: cache
>
> Won't work the first time you encounter a person...
Well that's what the third word is for.
> > Third word: >128 support
> > Ah, fourth word: compression
>
> That wasn't really the issue. It was about loading during an area/scene.
By
> using compression or more memory, you can include more GFX before you have
> to load. So you don't make loading less annoying, you avoid loading.
I do think the loading in for example RoA is annoying during battle, yes
(sorry Peter, and yes I know you probably couldn't have done it otherwise).
You see, I didn't immediately install my harddisk again after I got back
from the fair... I played it from disk for some time, but the loading before
every spell got very annoying.
That's why some spare RAM-space for gfx/animations can turn out to be very
useful.
~Grauw
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