Owain F Carter

3D Games


Humour


Fabio Bizzetti (bizzetti@mbox.vol.it) wrote in alt.sys.amiga.demos:

: Storm (storm@ar.ar.com.au) wrote:
: >Jay King (JasonK@corel.ie) wrote:
: >: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel) wrote:

: >: why don't you work on a 3D race car game or a 3D
: >: >fighting game and release it if not to help your pocket book, but to help
: >: >your reputation and possibly ego. It would benefit the Amiga community
: >: >also.
: >:
: >: I understand the comms links to Mars are not all that good but excuse
: >: me I was under the impression  VKD was 3D no ??? In that case Fabio is
: >: as good an illusionist as he is a programmer as he certainly had me
: >: fooled..

: >IT'S A FAKE!!! It looks like 3D but that's just clever display trickery!
: >Serious! Run VKD, start racing, touch your screen.. IT'S STILL FLAT!! No
: >3D at all!!

: Oh.. thanks pal! Finally someone that agrees with me that that shitty game
: is 2D, I said it years ago that I couldn't enter into the monitor.. if it was
If you were just a little bit smaller, you could enter by the headphone
socket.

: really 3D then it would be possible!!!! And I could see my face reflected on
: the water as well, but it cannot!! It only reflects the sky and the objects,
: so it's a fake!!! Where's my face reflected? Where is it??
Your face _is_ reflected, except it acts as destructive interference with the
reflection of your face on the monitor's screen and therfore makes it
invisible.

: And, IT'S NOT 27BIT!!!!
: I could understand if it was 1600x1280x24bit as *ALL* PC games, but from an
Actually, the latest PC games are 65536x65536x128bit, but that's the low
resolution mode.

: unexpanded A1200 I would expect AT LEAST 27bit colour, since my cat can see
That's too high. unexpanded A1200 can only manage 26.375 bits, using the
copper.

: colour quantitization errors (it told me! it told me!) in poor 24bit images.
: A shame.. the Silicon Graphics does it!!!! How could I justify this in front
: of my cat?!?! Please tell me!! I dont feel to deserve to watch it in the eyes
Your cat needs to see a doctor.
But, for $100 I could false a doctors report for you.

: anymore if I dont find a good excuse for that problem. :((((

: The programmer of VKD sucks bad, he can't really code a shit!!
Actually, look at aminet game/demo/VirtualShit.lha !!!!

: And, before I forget, why I cannot run it from tape?!?!? Why this very high
: requirements of a disk drive??
IT _does_ run from tape, just type

cp -r /floppy/floppy0 /dev/rmt0
/usr/bin/rewind
cd /dev/rmt0
sh VKD_Demo

Very quickly, I might add.

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