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From: lrg7030@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren  Rittle)
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Subject: Re: FAUG demo of Powermonger by E.A. -- long review
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Date: 17 Dec 90 01:01:24 GMT
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Mike Farren writes:
>dw3w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Database Work) writes:
>
>>for the majority of the people the extra time making it compatible with
>>AmigaDOS is not worth it.
>
>The point is that it doesn't take much extra time, if you think about it.
>It isn't very difficult to do at all - certainly less difficult than writing
>all of your own routines to replace all of the AmigaDOS routines that you
>use.

Hey Mike,
  I not only completely agree with you, I also think that you have
been too easy on some of these guys.  It is far easier to use the
standard AmigaOS routines to read disks, harddrives, <insert your
favorite logical device here! (some of you kids out there, do you even
know what a logical device is? haha)>.  I currently believe that most
of these OS breakers, write there own complex routines to do disk
reads and writes for one reason and *one* reason alone:  To
hopefully `protect' and `hide' their game code from others view
(ya, it almost works, ha).  Then these people have the gall to tell
me, an Amiga programmer, that it's easier to write your routines than
to learn how the AmigaOS does things.  Total Bull Shit!
I will never buy another game from the company that makes Full Metal
Planet, as I had a talk with one of their company reps at a 
convention.  He tried to convince me why their games only
run from floppy, use a non-standard formats, etc.  He didn't have clue,
and he tried to explain why it is easier to code around AmigaOS.
I laughed, stated I would not buy another game from them until
it was HD installable (as *their* IBM versions do for Christ's Sake!) and
clamly walked away.
Loren J. Rittle

--
``In short, this is the absolute coolest computer device ever invented!''
                   -Tom Denbo speaking about The VideoToaster by NewTek
``Think about NewTek's VideoToaster!  Now think about the Amiga!''
Loren J. Rittle lrg7030@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu