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From: farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Mike Farren Tutorial.
Message-ID: <23906@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 28 Mar 91 22:12:13 GMT
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sschaem@starnet.uucp (Stephan Schaem) writes:


> 15,000 hours a TEAM a 4 experience games maker... Yes some people
> work that mutch!

Ah, so you've each put 1-1/2 years worth of work into something that will
bring you a return of, if you're VERY lucky, $20,000 each?  Sounds foolish
to me, but to each his own, I guess.

> Everyone that worked on overdrive done other commercial games.

Name them.

> Also we are system programers, and I'm pretty sure (if you want to
> get personal) that we know more than you on EVERY amiga subject!.

You haven't the slightest idea how much I know about ANY Amiga subject,
so this is absurd.

> We work on the amiga this the A1000 came out...

Like I said in my first post, I worked on the Amiga when it was still the
Lorraine.  You don't impress me.

> All my point are PROVEN! please attack them one by one, and I will be
> GLAD to explain in more depth...

Your points had nothing to do with what I was talking about.  If you care
to talk about MY points, I'll debate you.  Otherwise, it's YOUR problem,
not mine.

> Excuse me to say what I think but: You dont know what you are talking
> about!

Like I said above, I don't think YOU know what I'm talking about!

> You are a game programer true, but you should realize that you have
> more than 1 kind of game! And you cant force other to follow your
> idea.

Never said I wanted to.

> If you have ported a MAC game and seem pretty proud of it: is the
> copper exploited to its fullest? is the blitter exploited to its
> fullest? CPU intensive? MEMORY hungry? etc...

I used all of the resources that the game needed as much as I needed to use
them.  I also left enough there so other tasks could still work.  The purpose
of programming isn't to be a hog of everything you can get your hands on
simply because it's there, or because you MIGHT need it.

> I'm not saying that you do a bad job... simply that what you do is
> not what other do, and you can aply rules in both worlds!

Never said you could.

> So MR.KNOW EVERYTHING. Tell me how I will make my game HD instalable...

How the hell should I know?  It's not MY game.  YOU figure out how to do
it - or are you just not clever enough to?

-- 
Mike Farren 				     farren@well.sf.ca.us