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From: borgen@sfd.uit.no (Borge Nost)
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Subject: Re: Game vs Multitasking
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Date: 5 Jun 90 16:39:03 GMT
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In article <2214@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> xrtnt@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov writes:
>In article <7934@mirsa.inria.fr>, buffa@sardaigne.inria.fr (Michel Buffa) writes...
>
>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
				       ^^^^^^^^^^^^
Sound reasoning, but ...

	Neither the Genesis nor the TurboGrafx were officially released in
Europe last time I checked (the dreaded PAL<>NTSC difference + marketing).


Adding more to the game vs. MT:
	According to Jez San (Starglider I & II, general 3D
wonder-programmer :-) there is a very god reason for killing the OS: memory.
(First remember that Atari ST and Amiga go head-to-head in Europe) When you
take an ST and an Amiga with lowest working OS needs, the ST will have more
available memory. If you make a game for the ST that uses all available memory,
then something will have to be let out of the amiga version (if it is going to
fit in 512K Amigas), and ST-owners will say that the Amiga is an inferior
machine.
	Therefore he has (so far) taken over the whole machine to give Amiga-
owners the same game as ST-owners.

(All read in an interview with Jez San)
(OK, so it wasn't that much about MT, but memory instead)

>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
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>   // | Nigel Tzeng - STX Inc - NASA/GSFC COBE Project
> \X/  | xrtnt@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov
>      | 
>Amiga | Standard Disclaimer Applies:  The opinions expressed are my own. 


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