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Offline Hyperspeed

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Re: Syndicate
« on: June 27, 2004, 07:36:06 PM »
Syndicate went bonkers on '030 let alone an '060!

The Jaguar/Macintosh versions had more colour but I think the A500 one
played fine and you didn't notice too much.

You think getting everyone into a car was fun? Try persuadertron the
whole Ural City into the train and then self destruct. The explosion
is cataclysmic and people fly(/fry) everywhere.

Who else took a perverse pleasure in taking a flamer to those nicely
pruned shrubs, or blowing up bins with the shotgun? I also liked the
timebombs when they could be placed near a parked police car.

:-D

Syndicate Wars was available for PC & Playstation. It featured a
network option so you could build bases with laser-traps and weapons
included plasma miniguns, nuclear grenades and satellite cannon. You
could detonate a mine next to powerplant cooling towers and watch
these gigantic structures collapse onto your foes, not to mention
commandeer 3D polygon hovercabs and gas people.

Players took the role of a cyborg or a levitating preacher in robes
and it had Bladerunner style voices chanting in the background. Find
it on eBay!

:-) :-o :-)
 

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Re: Syndicate
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2004, 04:18:41 AM »
Did you figure this out in a vein attempt to keep your friends from
calling?

:-D :-D :-D

I can't remember if Syndicate Wars had the Gauss Guns but I do
remember it being an extremely sadistic game with neon lit towers that
you could pan around in 3D to see behind buildings.

Can you imagine a mouse controlled realtime strategy game based on
Syndicate where you could take charge of armies in a 3D environment,
but with large sprites that looked almost 3rd person?

Syndicate is too good a franchise to let go, and there's plenty of
room for a clone on AmigaOne I think!

;-)

How is AmigaOne for 3D anyway, are there tools being developed to take
advantage of the ATi/GeForce's 3D capabilities and filtering etc.?
 

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Re: Syndicate
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2004, 08:37:41 PM »
Someone mentioned WHDLoad could switch off CPU caches, but on a
typical 50Mhz '030 that still leaves you with 7 or 8 MIPs which will
make things run quite erratic.

The best bet if you plan to have a long game of Syndicate is to hold
down "2" if you have a Blizzard and switch the '030 off completely.

:-)