Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!bacchus!mwm From: mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Lemmings - a tutorial Part IV Message-ID: Date: 26 Mar 91 20:51:28 GMT References: <23787@well.sf.ca.us> <1991Mar25.050519.29068@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: news@pa.dec.com (News) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 47 In-Reply-To: mykes@sega0.SF-Bay.ORG's message of 25 Mar 91 21:09:28 PST In article mykes@sega0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes: In article <1991Mar25.050519.29068@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) 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... I am bummed that I can't get emacs running on my Genesis or Nintendo... >2) not copy protected I am bummed that I can't make backup copies of my Genesis or Nintendo carts... I am bummed that I can't run UUCP on my Genesis or Nintendo... >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... Gee, there is an OS on the Amiga. The point I am trying to make that games are games and productivity software is productivity software. The point I am trying to make is that game machines are game machines and workstations are workstations. The genesis and nintendo are clearly games machines. Turning them off to run a different game is no big deal, as that's all they do. The Amiga is a workstation. Turning it off means interrupting all other work in progress, disabling incoming calls, and otherwise turning it into a game machine. If I'd wanted a game machine, I would have bought one. I wanted a workstation, so I bought an Amiga. Asking me to treat it like a game machine means I won't buy your software. ******************************************************* * Assembler Language separates the men from the boys. * ******************************************************* The men quietly use it where appropriate, the boys brag about using it everywhere?