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    No worries. Just looked it up on YT and ST port is purely line-based, with fixed camera. Quite crude, actually...

     

    Yeah, the ST version of Tempest is shit. Lots of other nice looking ST games, though, but none I can think of that have anything approaching the style of visual flair that you're asking about.

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    Yeah. It had reasonably fast 3D graphics with gouraud shading, some voices, decent draw distance for the time. It was OK, not a system-seller, but a pretty good choice for a pack-in game.

     

    When I first saw the Jaguar in Circuit City, I remember comparing Cybermorph to Spectre VR, which I had on my Mac. Cybermorph's lower resolution and small number of expensive games turned me off of the Jag at the time. I would get a used one a few years later when it was more affordable for me.

     

     

    Now THAT'S a game I haven't seen in quite a long time. Used to play this all the time in my high school's computer lab. The game was fun and ran smoothly, but to be fair, there's a lot more going on graphically in Cybermorph.

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    You sure you're in right thread ? This is PC reimplementation.

     

    Even if there was an ST source code of this, the visuals would be vastly downscaled and it couldn't remotely resemble jag's Tempest.

     

    It's a joke, don't take it literally.

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    Yes, we agreed I'll stop arguing and focus more on work, and it's been working out pretty well. In not-so-distant past, I have literally burnt countless weekends just on stupid flamewars, instead of work.

     

    Indeed. Since VladR isn't promising anything here, there's absolutely no harm in him doing his experiments and posting the results. I've been following this thread just to see what he can achieve, and I've found it very interesting. So everyone can stop with the "WTF is going on here" posts, as it's adding nothing to the thread. If you don't like this thread, feel free to not post in it, simple as that.

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    I occasionally wonder which member of 4Play was most responsible for their eye-rollingly puerile naming schemes. 4Play... Scatbox... JUGS... Ocatanut, etc. Made them seem like a bunch of tittering pre-teens. And then they complained when other companies wouldn't take them seriously. Gee, I wonder why.

     

    Tom Harker

     

    By the way, didn't you used to be their biggest cheerleader?

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    The only thing they did, if you believe them, was convincing Hasbro to make the Jaguar an open system. They claimed they had to do a lot of hard work, but I find that hard to believe: at that point, Hasbro had zero interest in the Jaguar brand, and it was basically worthless anyways. And despite several persons asking about it, they never released any proof of how they were involved besides their testimony (and they've been know to take some "liberties" with the truth more than once).

     

    To be fair, they had a lot to do with the Jaguar being opened up, including having their own talks with Hasbro (confirmed in an interview with Hasbro's VP or Marketing or something from back in the day), and also with organizing an email campaign towards Hasbro for that specific purpose. Had BS not been in development at that point, Hasbro wouldn't have opened up the Jag to the community. Like you said, though, not that it really means much at this point in time.

     

    All of the other stuff that Zerosquare said is absolutely true. There was an underground Jag developers mailing list way back then, with the key word being "underground" because 4Play/Scatalogic had a lot of animosity towards other devs. At one point in time, someone put up the question in the mailing list about whether they should be invited to join. I, being naively stupid at the time, was the only one to say yes. Everyone else gave an emphatic "no" as their answer.

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    Interesting. My take is that short term share spikes are a poor performance indicator for an entire products market life cycle. It is a good "indicator" though, and at the very least the console should fare better than the Wii U. Given todays fractalized gaming market, and the prevalence of smart phones and smart devices (tv's mainly) I still don't see the switch selling more than GameCube/n64 numbers. I think that could be enough for Nintendo to call it a success frankly.

     

    I think it's quite easy to say it will surpass GC numbers, and probably even N64 numbers also.

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    Actually...the gamma is at max I'm sorry to say. As you know, on flat panel modern displays, the background just doesn't come through very well. I can tell you that while I was actually playing the background could be seen by my own eyes more, but the camera wasn't able to pick it up it would seem.

     

    And I didn't mean it as a insult in regards to Cyrano being a Programmer and my comment. The fact is, I don't know Cyrano and I don't know what he does for a living. He can certainly do a heck of a lot more than I would ever be able to hope to do and I again, it wasn't meant honestly as it sounded I'm sure.

     

    Don't worry, I don't think anyone took what you said as an insult, so no need to apologize. ;-)

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