Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!GAR.UNION.EDU!91_bickingd From: 91_bickingd@GAR.UNION.EDU ("Bicking, David") Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Psygnosis games vs advanced technology... Message-ID: <9011222042.AA22368@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 22 Nov 90 19:21:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 107 >From: buffa@kish.inria.fr (Michel Buffa) >Date: 22 Nov 90 18:12:43 GMT >Organization: Inria Sofia Antipolis > [quotes from netters about failings of Psygnosis ] >I SAY THEY ARE GOOD PROGRAMMERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > Won't run on a 3000 >WHO CARES ? Don't buy a 3000 if you are a real video game fanatic. >> won't run reliably on a number of different configurations >Really, people with a 68020 accelerator, and custom ehancements aren't people >who play much. You'd better had bought a 500 instead of this stupid >accelerator card or this stupid hard drive controller, made only for people >who use their amiga for working (BEUUUUUURK !!!!) You are rude, obnoxious, and WRONG. I want to get an A3000 (soon) and I am currently stuck with an A500. The one thing that keeps me up at night is knowing that many of my games, and many games I'll want to buy, will NOT work on the A3000 because some PUTZ decides he's too lazy to write a program right. I bought an A500 (in 1987) because it was all I could afford. I haven't expanded it ONLY because I planned from the start to upgrade before expanding. I'm still waiting :( > can't be put on a hard drive >WHO CARES ???????? What is the interest of putting a shot'em up on a HD ??? >If you had a normal A500 configuration (2 drives, 1 meg), the custom dos >(YEAHHH ! I love custom fast dos, because I can load my games faster than all >the serious folks with expensive configurations, who can not even play the game >!!! HA ! HA ! HA !) Try being civil for once, you'll make fewer enemies. I'll tell you what the interest is. What if I'm working on a project for say, 8 hours. The end isn't in sight, there's code everywhere, and I'm stressed - so I decide to play a game to help me keep sane, take a break. Unfortunately, I gotta stop everything, save everything, turn off the computer, and plug in the game disk. THEN I gotta wait anywhere between 30 seconds and 5 minutes for it to load *IF* it works on the computer. I then play the game for 15 minutes, then I gotta spend more time restarting the system and finding my place in the project... THIS AIN'T FUN. Then there's the ADVENTURE GAME - you know, the ones that keep reading files of the DISK? Do you have any idea how much faster and smoother a game like Dungeon Master or Bard's Tale would be from a HD? Wouldn't it be great if you could load a game into RAM, play it for a while, pause it, and continue with your work/programming/writing/BBS'ing? No, I guess you aren't able to understand that. I guessed that from your innocuous comments and your ignorant tendancy to laugh at people for expecting something better. >> can't be multitasked >I HATE MULTITASKING GAMES. When i play I don't want to do something else. Try >to make a 60 frames/second shoot'em'up multitask !!! I hate multitasking >anyway because I just bought my computer for playing and I'm sure I payed an >extra for this !@#$$%% multitasking system. I just want to play games. Forever >!!!! Fine. Buy a SEGA and leave us alone. I already described the usefulness of multitasking games above. Too bad you can't comprehend them. >> -- >> Mike Farren farren@well.sf.ca.us >Mike Farren is too serious. He owns a too big computer for blasting the aliens >at a very hight rate, because he wants to multitask too much. He's got a too >big HD. He cannot play all these good games. No. You have too small an intelligence, too little imagination, and no manners. The programmers are too greedy or lazy to write their code correctly, so you think people like Mike should pay the price? You're twisted. Only when the games developers realize they won't make money off cheep ports (or in psygnosis' case, harsh protections) will they start to do the job right. >He must buy an Amiga 500, the simpliest one, buy a good joystick, and just >have fun. (And not say to himself: "If this game multitasked, I could play my >word processor at the same time !!!) I think not. He has the intelligence and creativity to see beyond that. Besides, why should he give up his BIGGER AND BETTER TOYS so he could stoop to your tinkertoy level? Once again, you miss the point. It would be nice to play Hybris for a while, pause it, flip screens and write a little while, then go back and finish the game where it was left off. But you probably wouldn't know how to use a wordprocessor anyway. Oh well. Direct flames directly to ME via EMAIL. My address is below. >-- >------------------------------------------ >Michel Buffa: Projet Robotvis, INRIA, France C'est domage que tu es Francais... pour les autres francais. Tu es impoli (sp) -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=- Dave Bicking Single Tasking????? Just say NO!!!! Union College Box 152 91_bickingd@union.bitnet // Schenectady, NY 12308 91_bickingd@gar.union.edu \X/ Amiga -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-