14 Oct
2007
14 Oct
'07
5:18 p.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
It was a long time until sellers found a new
"attract" program to pull
in buyers. At least the smoothness of the animation could give you a
rough idea of the overall performance of the system - much better than
quoting megahertz and waitstates.
The best "attract" programs I have ever seen for a 286 with VGA are
"demoscene" demos. The two best ones I can think of are:
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=463
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1353
3-D graphics, full-screen texture/bitmap effects, all in the full 70Hz
framerate of VGA. Very impressive if you don't know how it's done (and
still impressive even if you do :-)
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