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From: wakres01@pa.usl.edu (Stelly John B)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Opinions?
Summary: multi-tasking support etc.
Keywords: help I need your input
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Date: 26 Mar 90 00:04:34 GMT
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I am currently devolping a game for the amiga.  I intend on allowing for 
hard disk and multitasking support.  However, the nature of the graphic 
display of the game prohibits normal multi-tasking.

My question is :   Would anyone be offended by a game that took over the 
display , even if it had an alternative way to access the rest of the amiga
environment ?

The game will happily allow other programs to co-exist in the system, and,
of course allocates and deallocates all memory it uses, but it MUST program
the copper directly, and therefore cannot share the display with another task.
So what I will provide is some "button" or other means of returning to the 
workbench (or that is my idea at present) NOTE the game does not inhibit the
operation of anything but the display, and will not crash if other programs
try to program the display as well - everything is handled through the OS..

Any suggestions or opinions (not flames!) would be appreciated.

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John B Stelly   wakres01@pa.usl.edu
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