The polygons of Another World: IBM PC

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With several competitors such as Hewlett-Packard (HP), Texas Instruments (TI), Tandy, and Data General already established, IBM did things differently in order to stand out. IBMs PCs were built around the concept of "big iron" with a monstrous CPU, a lot of RAM, and anything else a customer wanted to buy as an add-on card. To release a software for an "IBM PC or Compatible", developers could only display a list of "minimum requirements" and "recommended configuration" on the game box. A simple double Bresenham algorithm generates horizontal lines start and end screen space coordinates. Running in the same resolution as the Atari ST and the Amiga (320x200 and 16 colors) he even managed to lower the minimum configuration to a 286 10Mh CPU with 640 KiB RAM on ANY TGA, EGA, or VGA graphic card[6].

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