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From: ken@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Awesome! Now I am Pi**ed!
Message-ID: <16060@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 26 Nov 90 17:16:13 GMT
References: <36787@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <21740@well.sf.ca.us> <9238@mirsa.inria.fr>
Reply-To: ken@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <9238@mirsa.inria.fr> buffa@mirsa.inria.fr writes:
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>WHO CARES ? Don't buy a 3000 if you are a real video game fanatic.

In the beginning (;-), developers had an excuse for not working with all
memory and processor configurations, for the machines weren't generally
available.  Today you can easily purchase an 030 card with lots of memory,
and many other configurations (hard disks, memory above 24-bit address
space, many floppies, machines with all chip memory, machines with lots of
fast memory, etc.)  Developers no longer have an excuse for not handling
these situations.  It does not take a lot of effort to be compatible!
People with 3000s should be able to run all of the software as should
people with 500s.

>I HATE MULTITASKING GAMES. When i play I don't want to do something else...

People are not asking for games that allow them to do other things at the
same time; they simply would like to be able to pause the game, do something
else (without rebooting), then restart the game.  This makes the machine
much more flexible/powerful than a dedicated game machine.
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