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From: mr3@ukc.ac.uk (M.Rizzo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Awesome! Now I am Pi**ed!
Message-ID: <6301@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 26 Nov 90 12:15:30 GMT
References: <36787@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <21740@well.sf.ca.us> <9238@mirsa.inria.fr>
Reply-To: mr3@ukc.ac.uk (M.Rizzo)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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In article <9238@mirsa.inria.fr> buffa@mirsa.inria.fr writes:
>In article <21740@well.sf.ca.us>, farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren) writes:
>> fhwri%CONNCOLL.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes:
>> >[...] it's not the first Psygnosis game that she's gotten WAY
>> >too many returns on. Why, oh why can they be such good game programmers
>> >and such LOUSY producers?
>> 
>> Who says they're good game programmers?
>
>I SAY THEY ARE GOOD PROGRAMMERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>  Won't run on a 3000
>
>WHO CARES ? Don't buy a 3000 if you are a real video game fanatic.

Hey a lot of people who use Amigas for serious purposes, including myself :-),
like to play a few games every now and then. Why should A3000 owners be
denied of playing games on their machine? Yes, I have to agree, such
game programmers are indeed LOUSY programmers !

>> won't run reliably on a number of different configurations

>Really, people with a 68020 accelerator, and custom ehancements aren't people
>who play much.

Says who ?

>You'd better had bought a 500 instead of this stupid
>accelerator card or this stupid hard drive controller, made only for people
>who use their amiga for working (BEUUUUUURK !!!!)

I assume you're referring to A2000 owners. Wouldn't it be a bit stupid to own
two Amigas, especially an A500 and an A2000 which are very similar except for
the A2000's expansion capabilities, which according to you shouldn't be
used anyway !

>> can't be put on a hard  drive

>WHO CARES ???????? What is the interest of putting a shot'em up on a HD ???
>If you had a normal A500 configuration (2 drives, 1 meg), the custom dos
>(YEAHHH ! I love custom fast dos, because I can load my games faster than all
>the serious folks with expensive configurations, who can not even play the game
>!!! HA ! HA ! HA !)

If games were to be multi-tasking, or could be run from Workbench (see
below), it would save a lot of disk swapping if they were kept on HD !

>> can't be multitasked 

>I HATE MULTITASKING GAMES. When i play I don't want to do something else. Try
>to make a 60 frames/second shoot'em'up multitask !!! I hate multitasking
>anyway because I just bought my computer for playing and I'm sure I payed an
>extra for this !@#$$%% multitasking system. I just want to play games. Forever
>!!!! 

While I agree that most arcade games are not especially well suited to a
multi-tasking environment, I would at least expect games to be able to
be started from Workbench and upon exit, to return back to Workbench
properly, freeing up resources as it should. This would avoid a lot of
re-booting and would allow one to take a quick break from say,
word processing, play a game or two, and return back to the Workbench
screen and resume his task.

I would also like to point out that multi-tasking games would be nice
e.g. play a game while waiting for a program to be compiled.

>Mike Farren is too serious. He owns a too big computer for blasting the aliens
>at a very hight rate, because he wants to multitask too much. He's got a too
>big HD. He cannot play all these good games.

No Mike Farren is not too serious - he is just being reasonable and I'm
sure there are a lot more people who agree with him. You, on the other
hand, are wasting the great benfits of Amiga by just using it as a games
machine. Shame on you !!!

MiKe Rizzo