Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Awesome! Now I am Pi**ed! Message-ID: <2273@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 27 Nov 90 18:58:00 GMT Lines: 51 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <1990Nov27.140432.6036@cck.cov.ac.uk>, csg019@cck.cov.ac.uk (Z*A*P*H*O*D) writes: >Whoa! If you knew anything about the amiga's internals at all you would realise >that it is *NOT* possible to do any of the things we have come to expect, like >50 frames per second scrolling etc. Take a look at the scrolling and graphics >in Sim City for an example... There is an execellent argument for not being >OS friendly. You either leave it slow and bad looking, or fast and good looking. Well, if the programers of these 'take it over and screw the user' games knew anything much at all, they would figure a way to give it all back to you rather than making you reboot. I won't use a game that crashes my machine. A machine that has to be rebooted is, by definition, crashed. It's been done before, it will be done again. Fats action does not preclude at least the minimal user friendliness. >I have NEVER *EVER* had any problems with games not running, thats probable >because most of the best games (including blood money, menace, populous and >elite) are written by UK programmers. And may "suffer(?)" the conversion to >NTSC and 50hz. I have seen very few games from the UK that I liked. I don't know what it is, but they seem to not quite 'fit'. Must be cultural differences. >I'd like to see the price of your hard disk! HDs are not overly expensive here in North America. If you don't want to buy new, you can buy used. The last 70 meg HD I acquired cost me under $10. It was defective, and I fixed it. Brand new, the same drive can be had for about $500. >I've never known anyone with a HD. It may be because the games that are >written in the UK are geared to the UK market, and most people in the UK >don't have hard drives and speed up boards. I don't know many folks without HDs. Yes, there are some, but they are not what I'd call heavy users. If they were, they'd get a hard drive. UK games have always been geared toward the lowest common denominator, which would be fine if they also allowed for those that want and have more than the minimal system. This was even true on the C64, very popular in the UK, but with cassette storage only. With so many companies not supporting hard drives, the incentive to have themn is less, and the prices remain high. Think about it. -larry -- The only things to survive a nuclear war will be cockroaches and IBM PCs. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+