Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.misc:334 comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:317 Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!nuchat!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: How do we change the scheduler? (Was Re: Multitasking at home...) Message-ID: <7642@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 28 Jan 91 12:53:10 GMT References: <1991Jan18.062608.14969@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <22782@well.sf.ca.us> <1991Jan21.181804.1232@cs.umu.se> <1991Jan22.033011.21457@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 35 In article <1991Jan22.033011.21457@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> mykes@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes: > I might also point out that AmigaWorld's #1 game of last year was > a European title, Shadow of the Beast, which I would hardly say was a quick > and easy program to do. I find it difficult to play, but not impossible. I don't know... the only guy I know who hasn't given up on it has been using the immortality hack. > I agree 100%. I don't like to cut anything from the design of the game, > especially for the sake of the operating system which does NOTHING for the > game. Sure does. Lets the game run on a 3000, to begin with. In fact I'd love a few decent ports of some of the old 8-bit games. You know, where they couldn't sell the sizzle but instead had to make the game itself attractive. You'll get a lot more playing time out of a good, simple, playable game like Tracers than a fancy, visually exciting, but unplayable game like anything Psygnosis has produced thus far. > I agree, too, and it seems as if a lot of publishers are going to off-disk > protection (look up a word in the manual, please). I have one game that uses "look up a word on the box" protection. I couldn't believe it! How many people keep the game packaging? > Honest people typically don't buy the cartridge devices you are talking > about. I don't know... I'm thinking of it. I've spent enough on $10 a pop replacement disks from Accolade to pay for it. Does anyone know if these replacements show up on the author's royalty statements? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .