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From: Lawson.English@p88.f15.n300.z1.fidonet.org (Lawson English)
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Subject: Re: Mac II Disappointment/Request for Game Recs
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Date: 6 Jan 91 16:26:09 GMT
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Barry Brown writes in a message to All

BB> That's why you don't see games on high-end Apollo workstations. 
BB> The demand for entertainment software for color Macs simply isn't 
BB> there. Oh the other hand, there are many classic Mac owners with 
BB> a thirst for games, and so the authors have written software 
BB> for that denominator. No sense spending the extra time and expense 
BB> to develop color games with resizable windows if no one is going 
BB> to buy them, eh? 
BB> With the recent introduction of low-cost color Macs, we can expect 
BB> to see game authors take notice and start writing good color 
BB> entertainment software for us.

Lazy is not the same as cutting cost: it really is no bother to specifiy that
a window opens to screenbits.bounds etc. As for color, the old macs supported
8 colors anyways, so a good writer should have left the option available, 
maybe
with a resource used as a flag to indicate that color machines were now 
available
so activate the menu item (or whatever).

Lawson
 

 

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