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Re: Scrolling 2D: why so good on Amiga?
« on: April 12, 2010, 06:31:22 PM »
@warpdesign

most of 93-94 games released for pc had both worse music and scrolling than amiga versions (we had quarter pixel scrolling on AGA and reaching that smooth scroll would have required that they opened 1280 width screens to do the same). Your pink memories aren't real: even thought it was technically possible to do smooth scrolling on PC most of PC coders forgot that and you had 256 colour sprites with big square pixels scrolling jerkily with metalic sound coming out from yogurt-like speakers.

3D games? IMHO first FPS shooters were boring as hell. The first entertaining FPS for me was half-life. The rest? I played Alone in the dark series on my amiga, just like Comanche, Duke Nukem, Dark Forces, Wolf3D and others.
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