Path: utzoo!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!IRO.UMontreal.CA!desmarai From: desmarai@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Stephane Desmarais) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Game vs Multitasking Message-ID: <1990May29.172524.15940@IRO.UMontreal.CA> Date: 29 May 90 17:25:24 GMT Article-I.D.: IRO.1990May29.172524.15940 References: Sender: news@IRO.UMontreal.CA Reply-To: desmarai@kovic.UUCP (Stephane Desmarais) Distribution: comp Organization: Universite de Montreal Lines: 52 In article mt87692@tut.fi (Mikko Tsokkinen) writes: >In article <7373@bula.se> bjornk@bula.se (Bjorn Knutsson) writes: >> >2. Should game multitask? >> > there are few drawbacks: Copy-protection is alot harder to make and you >> > very easily run out of memory. > > The reason I said copy protection is harder to make I mean this: > - game multitasks so one nice fellow starts Debugger and then the game > which for example asks the words from manual. As soon as the title screen > appears back to debugger and save the whole thing to disk and check the > tasks pc and search the starting point. GREAT words are gone! And if > it asks manual words all the time nobody plays it. Anybody who can do that can probably do the same thing on a non-multitasking auto-booting program. > - The only conclusions seems to make parallel dongles. A nuisance when you have more than one program using a dongle, and may not be compatible (depending on how you do it) with every model of the Amiga computer. > > And BTW my game contains fractal landscape and complex 3D objects, you >seriously think 68000 can run it and some other programs simultaneusly? >NO WAY MAN! You should notice that some multitasking programs do not require large amount of processing power. I think that downloading a file from the modem comes in that category. And of course, what if you have an accelerator board? And what if you want to cheat and have some "decelerator software" running? (mucho 8^) >> >4. Should game be exitable? > > Floppy users and low mem people will reset their machines anyway thanks to >fracmentation and viruses! But this can be easily provided! Yeah, but many users don't NEED to reboot because they have enough memory to delay the problem (and if every program you run exits properly, you just exit every program and voila (*), no more fragmentation. (*) Many people misspell that word as "viola". May I tell them that viola is the name of a NY Mets pitcher (at least, he was last year. I don't know if he still is :-). "Voila" comes from "vois" and "la" ("see" and "here"). -- Stephane M. Desmarais desmarais@iro.umontreal.ca (le Domaine Canadien) Departement d'informatique uunet!mcgill-vision!iros1!desmarais Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128 Succ. A Montreal Quebec Canada H3C 3J7 Projet IBM/CRIM/UdeM sur MAP/MMS (514) 343-7660