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From: debri@dds.nl (DEnnis Brinkhuis)
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Subject: Re: Exploitation
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 20:29:00 +0200
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Nick Ferguson <nickf@saqnet.co.uk> wrote:

> Whenever I read stuff like this, I feel a bit like saying "There's plenty of
> room to have a great game in the 2MB we get". Oops, I already did. But
> seriously, there are plenty of ways to be "clever" about writing a game and
> fit a graphically-impressive, extremely playable game into one-loadings
> worth. Think about the space that classic games such as Zelda on SNES etc
> took up; I think that part of being a good NY coder is being inventive with
> the space you're given. :)


It's a bit like sexy girls... In the olden days, you only had your wife
in the nude, then there became a camera and you could see pics of other
woman. Nowadays, we can cover up all the bad bits on a picture and we
can even do that in real with Plastic surgery.. But in the end... the
gameplay did not change..

This was just some utter crap, wasn't it? I just like to compare games
with girls..

Now for the more serious matter.. I'm still totally amazed with the
amount of Ram used in consoles. When I play Tombraider on my PC or Mac,
I will at least nead 16 Mb to run it. And if I wanne run it a bit
better, I need at least 32 Mb and a 3D card that is about even as
expensive as a complete console. The same game on PSX won't even use one
4th of the amount we use on PC. I just bought Falcon 4.0. And they
advize to play with 128Mb ram!!!!!! Can you believe that??? For "just" a
game! And how much did a normal PSX have?!?!!? What a contrast!


DEnnis..