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From: gregg@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (gregg.g.wonderly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Development ??
Message-ID: <4022@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 23 Oct 89 01:45:58 GMT
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From article <4652407d.14249@mothra.UUCP>, by bakerj@mothra.UUCP (Jon Baker):
> In article <23125@cup.portal.com>, Sullivan@cup.portal.com (sullivan - segall) writes:
>>    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.
> 
> 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?

One other thing which I think is important is that I can put it on my hard
disk and run it from there.  I don't care if there is a special disk that
has to be in DF0: for checking this or that, but please, this is a multitasking
machine, I would appreciate that ability to play a game or two while I am
compiling!!!

And also, I get real tired of rebooting my 2500 in 68000 mode just to play a game
because someone decide that it was easier to not check the hardware out first.

If you have to load a lot of big images, don't assume 512K or 1meg, I have
5megs on my 2500 hoping that someday people writing these applications will
figure out how to make use of it.

Okay, stepping down off the soapbox....

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