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1. xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Tuesday, 31-Jan-2023 05:26:24 JST xianc78

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   @pawlicker @ItsSkyDragonz I thought the Saturn was worse to program for due to having too many processors during a time when that wasn't common.

   • µPD7220 Enthusiast (pawlicker@outpoa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Jan-2023 06:13:20 JST µPD7220 Enthusiast

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     So did the 32x...the thing with the 32x is you had to deal with the cruft of being a Genesis addon among other things. For example the "background" layer (as the AVGN showed in his one video) was done with the Genesis as the 32x video hardware was literally a packed pixel framebuffer. Carmack liked that, but it wasn't good for 3d unless you did it all in software.
     
     It wasn't as bad as the Jaguar mind you and it could pull off some 3d stuff much better, but it was all in software. Something like Darxide was a full on software renderer.