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From: farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: How do we change the scheduler? (Was Re: Multitasking at home...)
Message-ID: <22863@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 24 Jan 91 10:02:57 GMT
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mykes@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes:

>To program the hardware, you only need to learn 10 pages in the hardware
>manual.  To program under the operating system, it takes years of experience
>and a bunch of banging your head against the wall figuring out why the examples
>in the thousands of pages of OS manuals don't work when you type them in.

Well, that's a good argument for using examples from the net, or examples
from the new RKMs.  Yes, many of the old examples did not work.  That is
not the case any longer.

>Then there is the story that Richard Hicks, one of developers of Artic Fox
>for Electronic Arts told me.  He said that they never could figure out where
>all the CPU time was going on the machine.  It turns out that if they killed
>multitasking, their code would have run at least 2 times faster.  These are
>words from his mouth.

In my experience, those words are the words of inexperience or ignorance.
It isn't that hard to make things go fast on this system.

>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.

So who says you have to?  You make comparisons with Mac games, which BY
THEIR VERY NATURE do not reside in a 512K system.  Resource forks, remember?
Stuff kept on disk until it's needed, and loaded as required.  Seems to work
pretty well there - and works pretty well the times I've tried it.

If you don't want to use the OS, don't.  I don't care, the OS doesn't care.
All I'm asking is that you don't trash it for all the other applications
unless you absolutely have to - and I STILL haven't seen any convincing
example of having to.

>However, I do think that many normally honest people will pirate software
>if all they have to do is make a diskcopy using standard OS tools.

Perhaps.  I still haven't seen any hard evidence that this is a significant
factor in low sales, though.

>Insulting me goes a long way toward making me change my mind!  Awesome debating
>tactic dude!

Yeah, radical, wasn't it :-)

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Mike Farren 				     farren@well.sf.ca.us