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In article <1993Jul6.160710.9695@infonode.ingr.com> ross@kaos.b11.ingr.com writes:
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>In article <1993Jul3.022306.1261@ugle.unit.no>, robert@alkymi.unit.no (Robert Schmidt) writes:
>>In article <1993Jul2.201914.25596@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, cannon@mksol.dseg.ti.com (Christopher Cannon) writes:
>>|> In article <C9Ip9w.4u0@eis.calstate.edu> gmontem@eis.calstate.edu (George A. Montemayor) writes:
>>|> >Why would ID Software want to do that? You would need more disk space if
>>|> >you want a high color DOOM game. I don't want another game that takes an
>>|> >incredible amount of disk space. Imagine all of those FTP transfers going
>>|> >on with a big game.
>>|> >
>>|> Have two versions.  I MOST DEFINITELY want a hicolor (truecolor) version.
>>
>>Of course you do.  Just recently, a person from iD posted, saying that
>>the graphics were going to be VGA, and VGA only.  The extra storage space
>>needed for SVGA graphics was not acceptable.  I guess iD has also 
>>considered the speed decrease, and that their optimized 256-color VGA
>>routines will have to be rewritten to cope with 15/16/24 bit color... :-)
>>Also, making a 32K color game today would not pay, as very few actually
>>have such cards.
>>
>>'I MOST DEFINITELY want' --- jeez... :-)
>
>Uhhhhh, sanity check time.  Hi-Color support does NOT mean higher
>resolution.  In fact, it means lower resolution with more colors.
>Something like 160x200.  No speed problems at all.
>
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