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From: bakerj@mothra.UUCP (Jon Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Development ??
Message-ID: <4652407d.14249@mothra.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 89 14:06:37 GMT
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In article <23125@cup.portal.com>, Sullivan@cup.portal.com (sullivan - segall) writes:
> >I am a professional IBM programmer about to start a port of a game in progress
> >to the Amiga.
> >(bla bla bla)
> What type of game?  What language are you using?  For development of 
> real-time interactive "video" games you'll need a good assembler and 
> a lot more familiarity with the Amiga hardware.  Almost all other development
> is done in C, with a small minority in Modula-2.

If you do opt for Modula-2, do not get TDI Modula-2.  Poor doc's, real buggy.

>    One important part of the development machine not to forget:  Go and 
> purchase a couple of games currently on the market.  They'll give you a 
> good idea of what the hardware will support.  There have been a rash of 
> hasty ports to our platform, and one more game with lousy graphics and poor
> control isn't really going to inspire anyone to purchase it. 

Good idea, but how about suggesting which software (not necessarily a game)
to buy, to make sure he gets something that uses the graphics capabilities?
The best I've seen is F/A-18 Interceptor, but I'm sure others could suggest
something better or more impressive (not to knock F/A-18, but there's ALWAYS
something better...), remembering to stay within stock configurations (or
maybe up to 1MEG).
J.Baker.