Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!daveh
From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Psygnosis games vs advanced technology...
Message-ID: <16328@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 5 Dec 90 21:03:15 GMT
References: <9011222042.AA22368@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <9011222042.AA22368@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> 91_bickingd@GAR.UNION.EDU ("Bicking, David") writes:
>>From: buffa@kish.inria.fr (Michel Buffa)
>>Date: 22 Nov 90 18:12:43 GMT
>>Organization: Inria Sofia Antipolis

>> [quotes from netters about failings of Psygnosis ]

>>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.

>>> 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. 

>You are rude, obnoxious, and WRONG.  I want to get an A3000 (soon) and I am
>currently stuck with an A500.  The one thing that keeps me up at night is 
>knowing that many of my games, and many games I'll want to buy, will NOT work
>on the A3000 because some PUTZ decides he's too lazy to write a program right.

The basic problem is one of honesty.  Any good programmer knows what he/she
has to do to write a correct Amiga program (which, by definition, will run on
any Amiga under 1.3 or 2.0).  Some choose not to.  Then somebody like David
here comes along at the computer store and buys a program that says "for the
Amiga" on the package.  The implication is that it is a correctly written
program for the Amiga, which means any Amiga.  If it won't run on the A3000,
it has a bug.  That should be fixed.  If the company knows ahead of time that
the program (based on either direct experience OR knowledge that the same
techniques failed on the A3000 in the last program that used them) fails on
the A3000, or on 68020/30 machines, and still labels it "Amiga" rather than
"Amiga 500 only", they are lying to you, plain and simple.  This kind of
thing should not be tolerated by the consumer, any more than you would put up
with CDs than played on Sony CD players but not on Panasonic CD players.

>Dave Bicking         	       Single Tasking????? Just say NO!!!!


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