Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:72491 comp.sys.amiga.games:2516 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!spies!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Awesome! Now I am Pi**ed! Message-ID: <1990Nov24.230245.5946@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 24 Nov 90 23:02:45 GMT References: <21740@well.sf.ca.us> <9238@mirsa.inria.fr> Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.games Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 38 I think it's pretty silly to be slamming _Mike Farren's_ opinions on hard drive mountable/multitasking games; I reach over and pull out my box for Crystal Quest, which does both very nicely, and there on the back of the box it says "Amiga Version by Mike Farren". I think we can safely say that Mike's opinions on such subjects should be given more than a little extra weight. As to the question of whether it is useful for games to multi-task: of course it is. I started a little script to merge and sort my new email into my existing archives. The lharc's for 1762 correspondent files comprising about 11 megs of email have been running for over two hours now, on the fastest disk/controller combo around (the bottleneck is the 68000), it has just reached the "m"s, and I'd _love_ to be playing Turrican or Globulous while this is going on; I'm a bit burned out on nethack (played about 60 hours of it so far this week), and reading news is pretty boring just now. Guess what? Turrican and Globulous don't install on my HD, and they don't multitask! Bummer! If they did, I could have detached the script and diverted the output, and left the archiving going in background while I blasted some nasties. As to installing games on hard disk: of course I want to! I've pretty much abandoned rummaging around for disks and docs and boxes (they're in three different rooms) and just taken to playing the games I got mounted in my "PLAY:" partition. It turns out for lots of games, a good sized chunk of workbench was on the game disk, so I could keep my normal assigns, pitch the redundant game disk copies of work bench files, and install games with only the game data and executable, saving lots of HD space. The games that don't mount on the HD don't get played any more ... guess how much more money I'll be wasting on non-HD installable games? So I'm a lazy sod -- I also represent a good fraction of the game market -- folks to whom games are a pastime, not a passion. /// It's Amiga /// for me: why Kent, the man from xanth. \\\/// settle for \XX/ anything less? -- Convener, ongoing comp.sys.amiga grand reorganization.