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Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 7:22
PM
Subject: [A83] Re: two things
In a message dated 03/02/07 5:27:41 PM
Eastern Standard Time, hpoley@dds.nl
writes:
> 2.) i heard of a program once that took
your desktop, and made it into
> a 3D enviovment. you could move left,
right, foward(up), and back(down).
> this might be fun to add to a
shell, but wouldn't it move pretty slow?
Take a look at Ti83 Doom, a
program currenty under development by a french
Ti83 programmers group.
Looks cool, is fast, but is Doom styled "3D". You
just run through a 2D
maze with upstanding walls. So it's not real 3D.
Have you ever seen the game Gemini? It's official
3D, and somehow, it runs blazingly fast on the 83+ (i'm talking like, if you
try to run in the game, it actually feels like you're running...)...
Search for it at ticalc.org somewhere, it should be there... I have no
clue how they did that, but it's amazingly effective for the idea and
purpose.
(I think the only reason that nobody knows of the
game is that it takes just about the entire 24k ram (it's a big game), and
it's f-ing hard.)
Nick