Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!inria!mirsa!sardaigne.inria.fr!buffa From: buffa@sardaigne.inria.fr (Michel Buffa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Game vs Multitasking Message-ID: <7958@mirsa.inria.fr> Date: 5 Jun 90 15:02:53 GMT References: <3930@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <7934@mirsa.inria.fr> <2214@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> Sender: news@mirsa.inria.fr Reply-To: buffa@mirsa.inria.fr Distribution: comp Organization: Inria Sofia Antipolis Lines: 78 In article <2214@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>, xrtnt@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Nigel Tzeng) writes: |> ^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 !!!!!!!! |> ^ |> ^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 !!!!!!!!!!!! |> |> Hmmm...explain why I've spent nearly 1k on games then? I should have bought |> more memory but $50 here and $50 there... Ok, you are one of the customers, but you are not the majority. In Europe, the customers who buy games are 16-25 years old, and 80% have got an AMiga 500 with a single drive. |> ^Most of you are using their amiga principally for 'serious application', even |> ^at home (That idea makes me crazy !!! There are so many nerds here!), if you |> |> Thank you so very much to condecend to talk to us "nerds". (No smiley here |> since there wasn't one in your post). I wasn't talking especially about you. (I don't even know you), I was talking about the feelings I've got when I read some of the messages here (like, yesterday night, I was compiling... and so on.) |> Let's be honest. If all they are doing is playing arcade games they could get |> a lot more bang for the buck to get a Sega Genesis these days. If they are |> playing simulations or RPGs where you don't need to count every last CPU cycle |> then multi-tasking isn't such a bane. Having a game HD installable is now just |> an expected feature on other machines. It is an indicator that an author is |> paying attention to the users and I like that. The better companies provide |> that and it is a minimum standard that should be adhered to. Same with the |> other features. Yes, but the Sega is not marketed in Europe, the games are expensive, you can't try them before buying them (With the Amiga, you can try the games with demo versions, with pirated versions...if you are honnest enough -like I am- you can buy only good games like Kick-Off, F29, Turrican...) |> To be frank...from the dozen or so Amiga users I know the people who spend the |> most money on games are the ones with a hard drive, extra memory and other |> hardware. They are the ones who know just how much effort (or lack of effort |> in some of these games) goes into any software product and is more likely to be |> a paying customer. Just my observation and MHO. I've got an HD too, but it seems like your friends are pretty rich. People I know buy one or two games per months, and that's all their money. They are 15 years old, and they really don't dream about an HD. In France, the Amiga 500 are sold in supermarkets. They don't sell HDs, RAM expension boards. They sell Amiga 500, games, joysticks, Nintendo, etc... ------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------