Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!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: 27 Mar 91 20:37:12 GMT References: <23787@well.sf.ca.us> <1991Mar25.050519.29068@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: news@pa.dec.com (News) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 58 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 install an emacs 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 get UUCP up 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 an 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 game machines. Shutting them down to run a game is acceptable; that's all they do. The Amiga is a workstation. Shutting it down means saving the state of and haltingany running servers, ditto for any ongoing computations, disabling UUCP dialins, and the like. Shutting it down to play a game isn't acceptable. The Amiga operating system is not a high performance video game operating system. BOBs are slower than what I use. Intuition takes 30% of the CPU time when you just move the mouse around You've said this a number of times. I'm curious - why are you letting intuition see mouse moves when your game is running? ******************************************************* * Assembler Language separates the men from the boys. * ******************************************************* Yeah - the men realize that choosing the right tool for the job makes them more productive; the boys don't realize that doing everything in assembler does little more than make them overworked.