From: goodcowfilms@the.same.name.com   
      
   "Kendrick Kerwin Chua"  wrote in message   
   news:NP-dnTVIq5-_kwLYnZ2dnUVZ_rHinZ2d@io.com...   
   > In article <1168050174.356205.163750@v33g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>,   
   > BelPowerslave  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>The first PD is pretty good, not as good as Zwei, but still pretty   
   >>good. It's dirt cheap too, so just hit ebay(or wherever) and grab   
   >>another copy. It's the PC version you have to watch out for, I'm sure   
   >>it's mediocre just like all the other Saturn to PC ports.   
   >   
   > The PC version isn't bad. One strike against it is that you can't use   
   > controller buttons to change view in a hurry like on the Saturn version.   
   > But the main reason people have a problem with it is the graphics, which   
   > conform to some bizarre pre-OpenGl and pre-DirectX 3D standard that never   
   > took off. It was arguably closer to the Saturn libraries (quadrilateral   
   > polygons and all) but most graphics cards manufacturers decided to go the   
   > other direction. Panzer Dragoon is arguably the best of the SegaSoft PC   
   > games that were converted from the Saturn.   
      
   Yeah, I remember some videocard bundles from back then which came with PD1.   
      
   I wonder if those cards were designed more like Saturn tech.   
      
   --   
   goodcow   
   goodcowfilms.com   
   metalcowsolid.com   
      
   >   
   > -KKC, enjoying his new Colecovision.   
   >   
   > --   
   > --"Oh please! I know you're reptiles and have no hair,      | kendrick   
   > but I have to shave something! I'm a shaver! It's my job!  |  @io.com   
   > Please! I... Hey, is that a squirrel over there? Oh please |   
   > let me shave it! Please!!" -- Tim Dawson's 'Dragon Tails'  |   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)