Re: Writing your own entertainment software.

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From: Roger Uzun
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 16:36

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>> In addition to Crystal Quest Chuck Yeager, etc there is Solarian

Crystal quest animates objects over a BLACK background, Chuck Yeager
does not use arbitrary bitmap backgrounds either and has a very low
frame rate.  I have not seen Solarian so I cannot comment.
Apparently Mac Users have not entered video arcades since about 1981,
if they indeed feel that these represent arcade quality, interactive
animations.  The Mac is a fantastic architecture in many ways, and has
some of the greatest software in the world written for it, but I have
yet to see a professional quality interactive animation on it.
If Solarian is like galaxian then it is 10 years behind the times.
Sound takes little cpu and changing an objects appearance each frame
is simply a matter of changing an imagepointer in any case.
 
I am looking for something like, OutRUN, or even Double Dragon II
(not those game types, just that sort of quality and frame rate)
on the mac II platform.

-Roger

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