From: saxena@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Virendra K. Saxena)
Newsgroups: rec.games.programmer
Subject: Why are PC graphics so horrible?
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Date: 2 Jan 93 04:51:58 GMT
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I rented a Super Nintendo for a couple of days and was totaly amazed
by its graphics capabilities. The question I have is why can the PC not do
the same things that the SNES can. The SNES double and triple scrolls with no slow down, and it easily moves large sprites around the screen(street fighter 2 and tmtm 4). The SNES is based on an 8 bit proccessor, while most pcs this day are based on 32 bit processors. Why don't we see such high quality games on
PCs? The CPU is definetely powerfull enough, and the resolution is higher then the SNES.