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Re: Attempt at porting Shadow Of The Beast to the Archimedes

From Someone Somewhere <nntpac@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.games
Subject Re: Attempt at porting Shadow Of The Beast to the Archimedes
Date 2018-01-25 15:18 +0000
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <p4csg7$uup$1@gioia.aioe.org> (permalink)
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On 24/01/2018 19:30, druck wrote:
> On 23/01/2018 22:48, Someone Somewhere wrote:
>> On 23/01/2018 20:51, druck wrote:
>>> On 23/01/2018 08:25, xltardy@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> 1/ for 8 Mhz machines screenmode 320 x 256, 256 colours
>>>> 2/ for faster machines screemode 384 x 288, 256 colours (overscan)
>>>
>>> As the next step up from an 8MHz ARM2, was an ARM3 3+x faster, surely 
>>> a bit more resolution than that can be afforded.
>>>
>>> ---druck
>> 12MHz ARM250?
> 
> That was a step back down, as the ARM250 A3010/A3020 was released after 
> Archimedes ARM3 upgrades and the A5000.
> 
> ---druck
Semantics on the way you put it - the 12MHz ARM250 is in fact a faster 
machine than the 8Mhz original Archs and may well have enough oomph to 
run the given resolution but no more, and therefore may be the machine 
targeted.

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Attempt at porting Shadow Of The Beast to the Archimedes xltardy@gmail.com - 2018-01-23 00:25 -0800
  Re: Attempt at porting Shadow Of The Beast to the Archimedes druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2018-01-23 20:51 +0000
    Re: Attempt at porting Shadow Of The Beast to the Archimedes Someone Somewhere <nntpac@gmail.com> - 2018-01-23 22:48 +0000
      Re: Attempt at porting Shadow Of The Beast to the Archimedes druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2018-01-24 19:30 +0000
        Re: Attempt at porting Shadow Of The Beast to the Archimedes Someone Somewhere <nntpac@gmail.com> - 2018-01-25 15:18 +0000
        Re: Attempt at porting Shadow Of The Beast to the Archimedes xltardy@gmail.com - 2018-01-27 13:45 -0800
          Re: Attempt at porting Shadow Of The Beast to the Archimedes Someone Somewhere <nntpac@gmail.com> - 2018-01-28 08:03 +0000
            Re: Attempt at porting Shadow Of The Beast to the Archimedes xltardy@gmail.com - 2018-01-28 03:57 -0800

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