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From: kim@uts.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A Philosophy of Game Design, from the author of PocoMan
Message-ID: <4bcp02PRaeuz01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 10 Jun 90 04:47:50 GMT
References: <1990Jun9.222125.2499@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Organization: Amdahl Corporation,  Sunnyvale, CA 94086
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In article <1990Jun9.222125.2499@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>, xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>
> I promised to post a part of the letter I received from the author of
> PocoMan, in response to my Multitasking vs Games posting, if permission
> >
> >    PocoMan is not copy protected.  You can easily make archival backups
> >
> >    PocoMan is multi-tasking friendly.  We have gone to great effort to
> >  keep the amount of chip ram used to a minimum, as well as overall
> >  memory usage.  PocoMan should co-exist well with just about anything
> >
> >    This disk is not bootable.  Boot up as you normally do, then insert
> >  the PocoMan floppy.  You can either run PocoMan from the CLI, or via
> >
> >BTW, our publisher
> >tells us that of all their published titles, PocoMan is the only one
> >that runs fine as-is on the A3000, I guess it pays to play by the rules...

Thanks for posting that, Kent.  Another sale of PocoMan will get chalked up
on Monday when I stop by my dealer.  As the above are things I *insist* on,
whether the product is a game or not.  Period.  Far too few games fall into
this category, so I'll definitely grab this one.

Game developers (especially) please note: the above attitude and policy just
chalked up a SALE.  If your stuff doesn't do the above ... it WON'T.

Copy protection?  Multitasking unfriendly?  Just say NO ... and say it with
your pocketbook!

'Nuff said.

/kim

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