Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!alberta!ami-cg!cg From: cg@ami-cg.UUCP (Chris Gray) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500) Message-ID: Date: 4 Mar 91 08:43:44 GMT References: <27253@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1991Mar3.223546.12173@rice.edu> <712Gr7w?@cs.psu.edu> Organization: Not an Organization Lines: 26 Asside from using an Amiga to play the neato games, you might consider one if you are interested in programming. It takes a while to get into it (there are LOTS of system and library routines on the Amiga), but it can be quite rewarding. I'm basically a programming junkie, and I love doing some of the things that the Amiga system lets me do. Things that would be much less pleasant on MSDOS or a Mac. My current project is a MUD (Multi-User-Dungeon) which lets several people play at once (connecting over serial ports or whatever other methods you have). All events are asynchronous, and I'm using a client/server model with message passing. This sort of setup is, as near as I can figure, the only reasonable way to do what I want to do. To the best of my knowledge, it would be pretty well impossible under MSDOS or on the Mac (I REFUSE to take over the machine - I want to leave the standard multi-tasking available). I could probably do much the same thing under OS/2, but it would never run on a $600 computer there! Another aspect of the Amiga that I find neat is that you can be busy typing commands into a pretty standard shell (like edit-compile-link-test, etc.), and then with a couple of keystrokes pop into a full colour game with sprites, sounds, lots of action, etc. Games that let you do that are still not all that common, but they are coming. Anything I do will certainly let you do it, since I develop and test while sitting in the same chair. Its an aspect that not too many people need, be I sure missed it on the mono- chrome Sun workstations! [Quit rambling, Chris - you're off topic!!] -- Chris Gray alberta!ami-cg!cg or cg%ami-cg@pembina.cs.UAlberta.CA