Re: Empire Strikes Back

Clay,

Could this be an "object" counter? I.E. - the number of objects the game is
keeping track of at one time?

Food for thought.

    - Matt

Clay Cowgill wrote:

> > Hey All,
> >
> > List seems kinda dead the last couple days? Maybe I'm unsubscribed again.
> > (Why, yes... I was! Dammit... Second ^H^H^H^H^H^H third send here... ;-)
> >
> > I noticed something last night when testing out a few Display Corrector
> > boards with Empire Strikes Back.
> >
> > Maybe everyone else knew this, but in case not... Anyone notice the
> > "load"
> > number that ESB prints in the upper right-hand corner of the display?
> > (Probably far-off screen unless you have the display really crunched down
> > on
> > the horizontal axis. Like I said, I noticed it while tweaking around with
> > a
> > Display Corrector.)
> >
> > I'm spent several minutes watching it, and it's not really a frame rate
> > counter, but I'm thinking it might be just some kind of relative load
> > measure for the system, or possibly the frame draw-time in milliseconds
> > (or
> > milliseconds times two or times three or something).
> >
> > When there's "nothing" going on (and the display is obviously running
> > really
> > smoothly) the number seems to go down to about 12. (Maybe I saw 10, can't
> > say for sure.) As more "stuff' starts happening the number increases to
> > around 20-24 during most of the game. When there's lots of activity (and
> > the frame rate drop becomes noticeable to the player) the number increases
> > into the 30's and even low 40's. I think the max number I saw was about
> > 43
> > when the walker-stage first started and I had three walkers and lots of
> > shots on the screen while executing a turn...
> >
> > Anyway, thought I'd mention it, if only to document it for future
> > generations in the archive of this list... It kept me entertained for
> > about
> > 15 minutes trying to see what it did in various situations... ;-)
> >
> > -Clay
> >

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