Laurens wrote:
>As said, I think most MicroCabin games are really programmed terribly bad.
Fray MSX2 is a masterpiece. It's fast, has great animations and gameplay,
etc. Xak 2 and Gazzel were meant to be TuR-only games, but MicroCabin made
some adaptions to create the possibility of playing them on a normal MSX2 as
well, since the processorspeed was the only TuR-specific feature they used.
And with IllusionCity, this was apparently not possible.
>Take a look at the speed of Akin and Ys II / III (all three astonashing
>pieces of programming-art) and you might understand what I mean.
That's true. But not everybody is as good a programmer as the creators of
the aforementioned games. And the programmers who aren't as good, might be
very well able to create a game with a similar smoothness when they simply
use a TuR... And that was actually the point in my statement...
>To me, it's the challenge to get something working on MSX2 of which most
>people at first say "it can't be done". And about the smooth scrolling, I
>really don't think it needs an R800. Just a v9958 or v9990. The VDP is the
>limiting factor in all MSX games, unless programmed badly.
Yes, well, to me it's equal if a game is developed for MSX2+ or TuR. The
fact is, that there is hardly no software specifically developed for those
systems, while it appears to me that many programmers could get great
results far more easily if they only made the game for 2+ or TuR.
Rieks.
________________________________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
****
MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and put "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes) in
the body (not the subject) of the message.
Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More information on MSX can be found in the following places:
The MSX faq: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/
The MSX newsgroup: comp.sys.msx
The MSX IRC channel: #MSX on Undernet
****
