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gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:

>nbeck@weber.ucsd.edu (Nathaniel Beck) writes:

>>Have just gotten a Diamond Speedstar/Sony HG1304 combination I am
>>looking for applications that show off the capabilities of this
>>combination. I am not looking for serious applications such as
>>autocad but fun applications (is this just an excuse to buy a game).
>>What great graphics programs (games?) do people like. I already have
>>After Dark. Will take things that run or do not run under Windows.

>	Games:  King's Quest V
>                Wing Commander

>	Other stuff: .GIF pictures.  Many FTP sites have them.

well, if you want to show off SVGA, then a game is not the right way
to go.  most games use MCGA or something of that resolution, because
svga doesnt (to my knowledge) support page switching, so animation
doesnt work too smoothly.  for example, wing commander definately
DOES NOT USE SVGA.  i'm not even sure it can use plain old vga. what
it definately does use is mcga and ega.  king's quest might use svga,
if, as i recall, it is not animation intensive, but it is also fairly
unlikely that it does due to the fact that not everybody has svga.

image files (like .GIF (tm)) do use really awesome graphics modes,
given the right viewer. i would recommend vpic (a fairly recent
version is 3.4) for non-windows, and wingif for windows.
fractint also works very well with svga, although the increased
resolution translates into increased calculation time.