Xref: utzoo rec.games.video:3613 comp.sys.amiga:40914 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!pawl!kudla From: kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) Newsgroups: rec.games.video,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: New videogame offering 'Beast' Message-ID: <1989Oct3.031541.21157@rpi.edu> Date: 3 Oct 89 03:15:41 GMT References: <125648@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Lines: 39 In-Reply-To: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM's message of 2 Oct 89 20:53:54 GMT In <125648@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes: Chuck> This section bothered me on several counts, not the least of Chuck> which was the programmers threatening to work exclusively on Chuck> game cartridges if the piracy problem didn't let up. Let 'em. Psygnosis are a bunch of college video geeks whose software is kludgy as hell, stomps all over the OS, makes me wary of rebooting without keeping my computer off for 30 seconds or more lest it jump all over my bootdisk because it really reminds me of the sort of thing pirates used to program for the C64, are extremely ego-bound considering that every game they write is done from the ground up without any shared libraries and can't seem to grasp the concept of being nice to the OS, have absolutely horrible taste in music (I like nauseating new-wave music sometimes too, but not constantly... this also seems to be a problem with those who create Sonix scores), and should have quit while they were ahead after doing Menace instead of making seven or eight clones of it. I don't know about the other ones, but Blood Money has a similar booklet (I don't recall what they said about piracy because I probably tuned it out as per usual) and struck me as being equally braindamaged. And with their programming styles and turnaround time, I'd just love to see them try to get official Nintendo standing..... there's a lot more competition in that market, too, and their blazing graphics would probably be quite outclassed since people have already had to learn how to push the Nintendo to its hardware limits. I also get annoyed at putting a nice new Menace disk in my drive and having it say "not a DOS disk" and having to click two requesters before I can even get the drive to shut off so I can reboot.... but what can you do.... flame off -- Robert Jude Kudla What noisy cats are we.