Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!yale!umich!caen.engin.umich.edu!srvr1!chrisl From: chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu (Chris Lang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Opinions? Keywords: help I need your input Message-ID: <1990Mar26.004612.7934@caen.engin.umich.edu> Date: 26 Mar 90 00:46:00 GMT References: <5809@rouge.usl.edu> Sender: news@caen.engin.umich.edu (Mr. Usenet) Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor Lines: 41 In article <5809@rouge.usl.edu> wakres01@pa.usl.edu (Stelly John B) writes: >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 ? Probably not, and I'm offended easily. :-) >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.. That sounds fairly reasonable. Since you would most definitely not want the game active while you're off doing something else (tends to be detrimental to your score, y'know ;-), providing some means of "shutting it up" temporarily sounds quite logical. It's refreshing to see someone putting a lot of thought and effort into integrating a game into the multitasking environment rather than assuming "It's a game; ergo, I can take over the machine." (Yes, I know it's not unheard of, but it IS all too rare.) So, my response is...go for it! Since you've obviously been thinking about it a lot, it would seem a shame not to do it, IMVVHO. -Chris > >Any suggestions or opinions (not flames!) would be appreciated. > >---------------------------------------- >John B Stelly wakres01@pa.usl.edu >---------------------------------------- -- Chris Lang, University of Michigan, College of Engineering +1 313 763 1832 4622 Bursley, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109 chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu WORK: National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, 900 Victors Way, Suite 226, Ann Arbor, MI, 48108 +1 313 995 0300 "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." - Ralph Waldo Emerson