Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!kth.se!news From: ludde@draken.nada.kth.se (Erik Lundevall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Game vs Multitasking Message-ID: <1990Jun1.174404.1378@kth.se> Date: 1 Jun 90 17:44:04 GMT References: <3930@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <7934@mirsa.inria.fr> Distribution: comp Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 50 In article <7934@mirsa.inria.fr> buffa@mirsa.inria.fr writes: >YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT GAMES ? >YOU ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT SPREADSHEETS OR WORD PROCESSORS ! > >Should a game multitask ? Should a game exit properly ? Can I install my game >on my HD ! Games are also applications, just as much as spreadsheets. Why should they behave different? >HEY ! A GAME MUST BE ENJOYABLE ! That's all ! If you like a game, you forget Yes of course, but that has nothing to do with if it is a well behaved game. The question is, will people buy an enjoyable game that doesn't multitask, exit properly etc. >Most of the real players don'care with multitasking, and 99% of them haven't >got enough money to buy a hard disk ! Don't forget that folks !!!!!!! Yes, that's true for many Amiga users. The potential market is bigger if those who do care about games being well behaved are satisfied also though. They will vote with their wallet, and it's up to the software house if they will care. >They are the one who make the game market. They are the one who save up money >to buy games, they are the one who make game software companies living. They >are the real customers !!!!!!!!!!!! Gee, I suppose I'm not a real customer then. I do buy games occasionally though, and I have noticed that I have BOUGHT more games than many of these "real players". Does that at least make me a virtual customer? >------------------------------------------ >Michel Buffa: Projet Robotvis, INRIA, France > > Internet: buffa@sardaigne.inria.fr >Surface Mail: Michel BUFFA, INRIA - Sophia Antipolis, > 2004, route des Lucioles, 06565 Valbonne Cedex -- FRANCE > Voice phone: (33) 93.65.78.39, Fax: (33) 93 65 77 65 >------------------------------------------ -Erik Lundevall Internet: ludde@nada.kth.se SnailMail: Korsbarsvagen 4B/422,S-114 23 STOCKHOLM,SWEDEN BBS: +46 8 348523 300-2400 bps (Camelot - Swedens first Amiga BBS) "The keyboard is mightier than the sword"