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From: jamin1@psu.edu (Jamin Frederick)
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics
Subject: Re: low-level GTE and GPU
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 20:28:22 GMT
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I also agree.  You can make some fairly nice games with what's given,
but it seems like any decent game development highly depends on what's
going on downstairs for optimizations and performance.

Another disturbing thing about Yaroze is that I still have a very
vague feeling about the architecture in general and how memory is
used.  I guess I'll just keep coding stuff until I hit a memory or
performance wall!  There just doesn't seem to be enough information...

Jamin

On Tue, 01 Jul 1997 21:02:35 -0500, "J.J. Hoesing"
<hoesing@eecs.tulane.edu> wrote:

>Hiya.
>
> I agree totally.  There doesn't need to be any official support for low
>level stuff at all.  The Amiga would have sucked it everyone just used
>the libraries that came with the system, it was people who coded 'on the
>bare metal' who made it interesting.  I think the same applies here.  We
>just need something basic to go on, and let us explore the
>possibilities.
>
> Also, please be careful how you attribute quotes in the future, I
>didn't say what you quoted me as saying.  Thanks.
>
> J.J.