Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cica!iuvax!valnet!joseph From: joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Awesome! Now I am Pi**ed! Message-ID: Date: 23 Nov 90 14:17:21 GMT References: <9238@mirsa.inria.fr> Organization: Valley BBS Network Lines: 133 Disclaimer: Author responsible for contents buffa@kish.inria.fr (Michel Buffa) writes: > In article <21740@well.sf.ca.us>, farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren) writes: > > fhwri%CONNCOLL.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes: > > >[...] it's not the first Psygnosis game that she's gotten WAY > > >too many returns on. Why, oh why can they be such good game programmers > > >and such LOUSY producers? > > > > Who says they're good game programmers? > > I SAY THEY ARE GOOD PROGRAMMERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I say they won't. If they don't work on my 2500 in '030 mode, they're out. If they don't go onto my hard drive, I don't buy from them again. Good programmers cam see to it that programs can multitask, and work on an 020/030, and work on an HD. I find this useful if I'm on a BBS and don't have anything better to do with my time, so I jsut pull out a good game. [I love Pirates! {The game - Lamers Suck}] It's apparent to me thqat all you do all day is play games. > > Won't run on a 3000 > > WHO CARES ? Don't buy a 3000 if you are a real video game fanatic. Boy, this really takes the cake. Real videogame fanatics don't buy A500's. (No offense to those of you who do useful work with your A500's). They go for fast 3000's with nice hard drives. I care if if runs or not. Say that you're running a BBS. You want to play a game you have real bad. There's nothing thatsaid that you had to shut down the BBS. Just plop in a nice,multitasking game, and fooooom. This is another reason to like Tetris, except it's floppy only. > > > 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 !!!!) Stupid accelerator card?! Sheesh. I bought the 2500 because it does everything I want. I don't give a shit whether it can play the latest pygnosis games, because they don't work. [Unless I go into 60k mode, which I don' do, 'cause I loose 4 megs RAM]. And yes, there are people who buy A3000's for games, too. They don't want an A500 because they don't want to be left behind. The reasoning: They will want to use it for something useful. > > > can't be put on a hard drive > > WHO CARES ???????? What is the interest of putting a shot'em up on a HD ??? Because it's easier. I don't want to reboot. I can just click on an icon and run a nice, good shoot-em-up. > 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 ga Wanna bet? I'll be you $100 that my A2091/Q40S/Q105S can outrun your custom-dos anyday. I can play well-behaved games, and I praise companies like CinemaWare and Spectrum Holobyte for shaping up their act. [Notice that the legal companies are all American?] > !!! HA ! HA ! HA !) > > > can't be backed up, > > I agree with you on this one. I agree, too. > > > 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. Foreve Good for you. It just so happens that my 2500 can do 60 frames/sec and I can run ProWrite at the same time. If you want to play gaames, that's your choice. But the vast majority want the three mains points on games. (MultiTasking, HD, and '030) > !!!! > > -- all of these say to me that they are LOUSY game programmers. > > I love "Blood Money" > I love "The Killing Game Show" > I love "Anarchy" > I loved "Barbarian" > I loved "Obliterator" > I loved "Menace" > ..... I hate them all, since they don't follow good programming practices. > > They make real games, even if they made some errors (The Shadow of the beast > & 2 -> totally unplayable) > > > -- > > Mike Farren farren@well.sf.ca.us > > Mike Farren is too serious. He owns a too big computer for blasting the alien > 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. > > 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 !!!) > -- > ------------------------------------------ > Michel Buffa: Projet Robotvis, INRIA, France > > Internet: buffa@sardaigne.inria.fr > Surface Mail: Michel BUFFA, INRIA - Sophia Antipolis, > 2004, route des Lucioles, 06565 Valbonne Cedex -- FRANCE > Voice phone: (33) 93.65.78.39, Fax: (33) 93 65 77 65 > ------------------------------------------ What an idiot. Joseph Hillenburg Secretary, Bloomington Amiga Users Group joseph@valnet.UUCP ...!iuvax!valnet!joseph "Only Apple could slow down a 68030 chip." -Computer Shopper