Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!kth.se!cyklop.nada.kth.se!news From: nv89-nun@alv.nada.kth.se (Nicklas Ungman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Lemmings - a tutorial Part IV Message-ID: Date: 26 Mar 91 13:31:31 GMT References: <23787@well.sf.ca.us> <1991Mar25.050519.29068@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: news@nada.kth.se (Mr News) Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 59 In-reply-to: mykes@sega0.SF-Bay.ORG's message of 26 Mar 91 05:09:28 GMT In article mykes@sega0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes: > Any sane programmer can make a game that >1) is HD installable I am bummed that I can't install my Genesis or Nintendo carts on my hard disk... >2) not copy protected I am bummed that I can't make backup copies of my Genesis or Nintendo carts... >3) saves the state of the OS and restores it when the game is exited Gee, there is no OS on a Genesis or Nintendo machine... >4) works on any hardware configuration The point I am trying to make that games are games and productivity software is productivity software. I don't see any reason to make a program (game or not) non HD installable. In fact I see it as lazyness or stupidity to not do it. The reason of having a hard disk is to be able to access all your programs from it, instead of having several hundreds of floppy disks all over your place, which can result in a great mess of floppy disks. I also don't see the difference between productivity software and games when it comes to copy protection, hd installment, OS frendliness and USER frendliness etc. The program that are not friendly to it's environment is insulting it. Someone who's insulting doesn't get any respect. So, if we want people to respect games (as entertainment) we must stop to insult our environment. In fact, the magazine MacUser is deleting one mouse from their ratings of games if the games are copy-protected. Manual lookup protection included. I thought the Amiga was a computer with the power of a game machine instead of just another game machine. Maybe I'm wrong. >-- >/~\_______________________________________________________________________/~\ >|n| rjc@albert.ai.mit.edu Amiga, the computer for the creative mind. |n| >|~| .-. .-. |~| >|_|________________________________| |_| |________________________________|_| -- ******************************************************* * Assembler Language separates the men from the boys. * ******************************************************* /Nixxon (Only masochists program in assembler only :-)