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From: hale@scam.Berkeley.EDU (Greg Hale)
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Subject: Re: Ultima series
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Date: 22 Nov 90 01:03:16 GMT
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In article <87@syrian.cs.utexas.edu> ted@cs.utexas.edu (Ted Woodward) writes:
>In article <10205@helios.TAMU.EDU> n074ez@tamuts.tamu.edu (Joe Bezdek) writes:
>>...  I myself can see no reason why a game that can run on an
>>IBM with VGA can't run on a Mac II with very few changes (cosmetic).
>
>Actually, if you are smart when you 1st write the program, you can.  What you
>need to do is come up with your own set of screen libraries and only use those,
>not machine dependent stuff.  Then you write the libraries for each machine
>...

Of course, this produces an ibm-like program on the Mac, often without
windows, menus, nice interfaces, etc..., which absolutely drive Mac
people insane when they must do without.

Gads - when will people leave Mac ports to Mac programmers... :(




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