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I don't know, but based on a gameplay video it looks more like vector graphics to me. The terrain silhouette seems to have straight lines.

I don't know how they pulled that terrain rendering off with 1994 hardware. The limited rendering distance probably helps.

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I seem to remember that Magic Carpet was a massive hardware hog and that it ran marginally well on the best you could buy in 1994. That was something like a Pentium 90.

>I seem to remember that Magic Carpet was a massive hardware hog

I'm not sure about that. A quick search shows that the (on the box) requirements were 33mhz 486, which seems to have been fairly reasonable for the time.

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