Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!well!farren From: farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Game vs Multitasking Message-ID: <18315@well.sf.ca.us> Date: 3 Jun 90 11:20:39 GMT References: <3930@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <7934@mirsa.inria.fr> Distribution: comp Lines: 52 buffa@sardaigne.inria.fr (Michel Buffa) writes: >HEY ! A GAME MUST BE ENJOYABLE ! That's all ! If you like a game, you forget >all the rest ! But if you can get all the rest AND an enjoyable game, shouldn't you go for the whole package? >A pure arcade game, a real shoot'em'up like Battle Squadron. Do you really >think it will be possible to make it multitask ? Of course not ! >The refresh of the screen is synchronized on the video rate, 50Hz. That has nothing to do with it. Look at my port, Crystal Quest. Arcade game. Lots and lots and lots of things moving around all the time. Put it on a 68030, run a download in the background, and what do you get? Lots and lots and lots of things moving around all the time. Put it on a 68000, run a download in the background, and what do you get? Lots and lots and lots of things moving around pretty sluggishly, but you can always pause for a minute or two - it's your choice. >I'M SURE THAT MOST OF THE PEOPLE WHO WROTE ABOUT GAME VS MULTITASKING HERE, >ARE NOT REAL PLAYERS (SPENDING MORE THAN AN HOUR PER DAY PLAYING) Watch your mouth - the day I spend less than an hour playing a game or two is probably going to be the day I die. Why the hell do you think I got into this silly business, anyhow? >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 !!!!!!! Most of the real players who can think do care about multitasking, given the choice. Most of them would love to have a hard drive, so they can keep tens or hundreds of games on tap at any moment. >Many of my friends bought their amiga only for playing. They even never used >the workbench disk. They buy a game, boot and play. When they are fed up they >boot another one on their single drive machine, and they don't even know what >multitasking mean !!!!!!!! That doesn't make them right, it makes them pitiful. They don't know what they're missing, poor things. >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 !!!!!!!!!!!! Anyone with money is a real customer. That includes the poor folks who haven't bothered to figure out how their computer works, but it also includes those of us who want to use the thing to its fullest. Why should I compromise, when I don't have to? -- Mike Farren farren@well.sf.ca.us