Re: [Alephmodular-devel] More to muse over. Display Abstraction

[Br'fin <br...@ma...>]

Personally, I'd rather not drop a feature of the existing code offhand. 
Though 256 colors does have the stronger ploy at the moment. Between 
not looking right on the OSX machines it runs on (I haven't strongly 
looked into addressing the color issues yet), and just plain not being 
able to kick into 256 color mode the way M2 does on some OSX boxes.

I honestly don't know all the machines that will try to run it, and 
right now I'm sometimes dipping below 30 fps at high-res & 100%. (I 
admit the code is also tied up with more error checking too, but I'm 
not using Marathon infinity files either)

Certainly it makes certain things smoother if you only choose from 
available screen sizes and then most of the in-game toggling that you 
have comes from turning the HUD on and off :)

-Jeremy Parsons

On Saturday, March 8, 2003, at 01:26  PM, Kevin Walker wrote:

> On Saturday, March 8, 2003, at 02:11  PM, Mark Levin wrote:
>> IMHO it would be reasonable to drop low-resolution mode entirely by 
>> now. Is anyone out there still using a computer slow enough to 
>> benefit from it? The same could be said for 256-color mode.
>>
>> --Mark
>
> While I understand where you're coming from (if you're running Mac OS 
> X, you should be able to use hi-res), and while I certainly don't NEED 
> it, low-res can be nice if you want some easy framerate boosting.  And 
> if AM allows for more than 30 fps, then this could be nice for the 
> people who want more fluidity than sharpness.
> Don't beat a low-res dead horse if it isn't working well - I wantz me 
> AM! -^= (this is supposed to be a thumbs-up)
>
> I would agree with dropping 256-colors, though.
>
> -KWalker