Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?

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From: "Jolyon Ralph"
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:29

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> Jonathan Belson <jon@dookie.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> ->My comparison was based on seeing TFX II running at about 5 frames per
> ->second on a P6 at my local PC World.
> 
> And how fast did that game run on a PSX? Anyways, TFX II is probably not
> a Windows NT or Linux game, so it would probably have run somewhat
> faster on a fast Pentium. Beats me why they demoed it on a P6.

It probably uses 32-bit code through a dos extender, in which case the 
poor performance is probably due to a poor video card in the PC World PC 
rather than anything P6 specific....

Jolyon

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