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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Fernando on May 22, 2004, 11:15:18 PM

Title: Speed?
Post by: Fernando on May 22, 2004, 11:15:18 PM

Hey all i was wondering if all the old amiga 1200 games would run at there normall speed all properly like on one of the newer ones?

Title: Re: Speed?
Post by: Karlos on May 22, 2004, 11:20:36 PM

Hi,

That depends on how the game was coded. Anything that properly times itself using the hardware timers, vertical blanking interrupts etc. should be fine.

Some games, however, taxed the basic machine and often omitted such things in order to let the code run as quickly as it could on the hardware.

Naturally such things run at insane speeds on 68060 etc ;-)

Title: Re: Speed?
Post by: Argo on May 23, 2004, 04:49:12 AM

F-18 seems to be one of them. Try watching it in demo mode on various Amigas.

Title: Re: Speed?
Post by: Waccoon on May 23, 2004, 05:29:23 AM

Armour Geddon is another.  It varies in speed horribly as you're moving around, much worse than other vector games.

What's really fun is running Outrun.  The game timer is controlled with hardware, but the graphics are not time-based, so you can drive like crap and still win on an '030.  :-)  Very amusing to watch on an A3000.