Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!pacbell!indetech!vsi1!zorch!amiga0!mykes From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Mike Farren Tutorial. Message-ID: Date: 30 Mar 91 08:56:48 GMT References: <20115@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Mar27.012717.11541@starnet.uucp> <1998@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil> <1991Mar27.175514.25590@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <20198@cbmvax.commodore.com> Organization: Amiga makes it possible Lines: 32 In article <20198@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes: > Just because you ask for it doesn't mean it feasible, practical or >sensible. The amiga does have an OS, and as the line changes over the coming >years, using the OS will help insulate you from hardware changes. It is not >a game machine - if it was, there'd be no rom, no disk drive (cartridge), and >maybe no keyboard. It's a computer that happens to also be able to run >really good games. We won't cripple our future and hamstring our OS just >for games that take over the machine. > Is the C64 a game machine? Yes, people do/did use it for business applications, but there is no doubt that it was used almost exclusively for game playing. The C64 also has an OS - called Basic, and just like the Amiga OS, game programmers didn't use it. The A500 is just as much of a game machine as the C64. I'm sure you realize that the vast majority of Amiga owners (those who one A500s) just stick in a game disk and reboot and could care less about the OS. They just want good games. >-- >Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. >{uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com BIX: rjesup >Thus spake the Master Ninjei: "To program a million-line operating system >is easy, to change a man's temperament is more difficult." >(From "The Zen of Programming") ;-) -- ******************************************************** * Appendix A of the Amiga Hardware Manual tells you * * everything you need to know to take full advantage * * of the power of the Amiga. And it is only 10 pages! * ********************************************************