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From: FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Awesome! Now I am Pi**ed!
Message-ID: <36245@cup.portal.com>
Date: 27 Nov 90 02:04:07 GMT
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[ refer to attached post for reference ]

Ummm......actually for non-real-time games like hack or shanghai I
think users *are* asking for multi-tasking.  Real-time games can takeover
the machine and give it back while pausing.  Both hack and Shanghai
do multi-task by the way so it has been done before.  

I don't have a hard drive so I still buy games that don't install (how
would I know?)  But I don't buy copy-protected software and when I do
get a disk I won't buy uninstallable software, (can you say "crippled"?).
So expand your market and listen to your customers.  Don't copy protect
and make your software installable and keep it system friendly.  Or sell
it for $5 in a baggie at Fred's Software Discounters...(joke, OK?) :)

Dana Bourgeois @ cup.portal.com
 
attached note ===================
In article <9238@mirsa.inria.fr> buffa@mirsa.inria.fr writes:
>
>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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