And it was rendered using only three Amiga computers. IIRC Amiga wasn't good for 3D, but I might be wrong.Mr. Pink
D is not being rendered in real time, but it's a cool example of early 3D nonetheless. Thank you.
For those who don't know you can play the Marathon Trilogy on a modern PC with Aleph One:
Aleph One is the open source continuation of Bungie's Marathon 2 FPS game engine. Aleph One plays Marathon, Marathon 2, Marathon Infinity, and 3rd-party content on a wide array of platforms, with (optional) OpenGL rendering, Internet play, Lua scripting, and more.
http://marathon.sourceforge.net/
Make sure to play in software mode also don't forget to disable mouse acceleration and lower the mouse sensitivity.
there is a brilliant Unreal Tournament TC of the first Marathon game available.
Frontier: Elite 2's visuals packed a hell lot of bang for a nascent 3D game.No you're right. 3D only really became possible with the advent of Pentium PCs. By that time Amigas were (sadly) on their way out. I think the fastest stock Amiga computer ran at 50 MHz.
And the 3D part is?
I tried playing SimCity 3k a couple weeks ago but it's fucked. Whenever you try to scroll your view, it moves at lightning speed and there is no fix. Begins to drive you insane. Then SimCity 4 even with the launcher mod tweaks chugs and gets choppy on modern hardware once your city builds up, still crashes too. Then we have Cities XL which should be a decent replacement except it's even more fucked up, with random crashing and framerate dropping to single digits when doing things like laying down roads. The latest SC travesty isn't worth mentioning.
Why can we not get a playable modern SimCity game?
Probably already posted (and from 1998) but I'm replaying it now and those voxely vistas still look great. The game also has very impressive animations.
Frontier: Elite 2's visuals packed a hell lot of bang for a nascent 3D game.No you're right. 3D only really became possible with the advent of Pentium PCs. By that time Amigas were (sadly) on their way out. I think the fastest stock Amiga computer ran at 50 MHz.
It ran on 'Miggy, Atari and 286.
Probably already posted (and from 1998) but I'm replaying it now and those voxely vistas still look great. The game also has very impressive animations.
Delta ForceWhat game is this?