Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!usc!wuarchive!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Mario Bothers Message-ID: Date: 17 Jul 90 13:55:00 GMT References: <1990Jul12.012730.4248@Stardent.COM> <64044@sgi.sgi.com> <2767@awdprime.UUCP> <64280@sgi.sgi.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 8 In article <64280@sgi.sgi.com> bron@bronze.wpd.sgi.com (Bron Campbell Nelson) writes: > And you'd be dead wrong. Video game software is some of the ugliest > and most arcane assembler there is. Depends on the machine. The Amiga has plenty of horsepower for doing even zippy videogames in C. Hackercorp's "Tracers" is 100% C code, and multitasks well enough to be completely playable while background stuff like compiles are running. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180.