Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Multitasking is slower Message-ID: <1716@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 9 Jun 90 20:23:48 GMT Lines: 47 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <121@cbmtor.UUCP>, sjorr@cbmtor.UUCP (Stephen Orr) writes: >I would like to point out at this point that we all live in a capitalist >world, and this discussion of Multitasking vs. non-Multitasking games is >quite simple to resolve. True. >In the long run however, if non-Multitasking games were SOOO bad, then the >companies that insist on producing then would go bankrupt, and it doesn't >look like they are. Well, so far, there hasn't been much choice. Should game designers start following the lead of the folks that did PocoMan, perhaps we will see a move by the purchasers toward these types of programs. It's not overly meaningful to say that the purchasers have decided they find the current situation acceptable when there are no (or few) alternatives. >In the end if YOU don't like a non-multitasking game then don't buy it. Thanks you. I won't, and don't. >Personally I don't play an awful lot of games, and base my purchases >purely on the entertainment, and quality with which the program succeeds >in whatever it was designed to do. I base it on that too, it's just that the entertainment value is severely decreased when I think of what is happening to my machine. Knowing that a game has crashed my machine as soon as I start it is not helping me have warm thoughts about it. All it takes is one time that I can't pause the game, flip to a CLI, and find a phone number in my phonelist, to make me say 'never again'. Capitalism at work. >More important than the multitasking issue is the CPU issue. Programs which >force me to boot with both fingers on the mouse, and don't allow me to play >with the 030, do anoy me. At least F18 doesn't have this problem. I'll go along with that one 100%. -larry -- The raytracer of justice recurses slowly, but it renders exceedingly fine. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+