AT 286 Uses

[Jim Leonard]

Ethan Dicks wrote:
> It was a long time until sellers found a new "attract" program to pull
> in buyers.  At least the smoothness of the animation could give you a
> rough idea of the overall performance of the system - much better than
> quoting megahertz and waitstates.

The best "attract" programs I have ever seen for a 286 with VGA are 
"demoscene" demos.  The two best ones I can think of are:

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=463

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1353

3-D graphics, full-screen texture/bitmap effects, all in the full 70Hz 
framerate of VGA.  Very impressive if you don't know how it's done (and 
still impressive even if you do :-)
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