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From: buffa@sardaigne.inria.fr (Michel Buffa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Game vs Multitasking
Message-ID: <7938@mirsa.inria.fr>
Date: 1 Jun 90 11:34:51 GMT
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In article <5610@netxcom.DHL.COM>, ewiles@netxdev.DHL.COM (Edwin Wiles) writes:
|> 
|> For example, Interstel's Empire does NOT require a reboot, and the other
|> tasks appear to continue working.  However, once you're in the game, you
|> can't switch back to the other screens.  Still, the game is quite good, and
|> I enjoy it, so I bought it.  I have never regretted the purchase, and am
|> currently involved in a Tourney on CI$.

Empire is a simulation game, not a fast action game. I also think it's a real
bad game now (it seems pretty old compared to the recent ones).
Try a shoot'em'up in a multitasking environment. Would you like your sheep to
move at different speeds depending on the loading of the cpu ?

|> As a counter-example, I also have Marble Madness.  It requires a reboot,
|> nothing else runs, and it still gets jerky.  Even moreso since it requires
|> floppy access.  I regret ever buying the thing, because although I enjoy
|> playing the game, I *HATE* the way it forces me to reboot.  As a result,
|> I rarely played the game, and haven't touched it in the last 2 years.

Marble Madness is a good game, even if it'a pretty old. But if you really
loved it, you should play it for hours and hours. In this case, what's the
problem ? Rebooting takes only a few seconds. If it's not the case, you don't
really like the game, so you are right to regret having bought this game.
|> 
|> Sorry!  But that's the way it is.  And I expect that the market is more
|> my way, than the game addict's way.  Who buy's Amiga?  Someone who just
|> want's to play games?  No!  THEY go buy something like Nintendo.  People
|> who are willing to plunk down the money to buy an Amiga want it to do
|> more than just play games!

WRONG !
Here in Europe, 90% who buy an Amiga 500 only use it for playing games. Many
of my friends never used the workbench disk ! They are the market in Europe.
They bought an Amiga because Nintendo and Sega doesn't really exist here, and
because you can try many of the games in a pirated form before buying them.
I'm not encouraging piracy, but this is the reality here. I also think that
the best games on the Amiga are much better than the best games for the 
consoles.

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