Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!njin!limonce From: limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli +1 201 408 5389) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Lemmings - a tutorial Part V (last) Message-ID: Date: 1 Apr 91 19:16:08 GMT References: <23788@well.sf.ca.us> <23837@well.sf.ca.us> <781@tnc.UUCP> <18ea378c.ARN11fb@jsmami.UUCP> Organization: Drew University - Madison NJ Lines: 39 In article <18ea378c.ARN11fb@jsmami.UUCP> jsmoller@jsmami.UUCP (Jesper Steen Moller) writes: > In article , Tom Limoncelli +1 201 408 5389 writes: > > As soon as your statistical sample (European kids) starts getting > > '030s and HDs I'm sure that you'll produce software that I feel like > > buying. Too bad it takes so long for Europeans to come up to American > > standards. I guess we follow them in fashion and they follow us in... > > oh never mind. > > Yeah - ufortunately "European kids" (of which I might be considered one) > has to upto pay twice as much for hardware as you lucky Americans. No > wonder we're a bit slow in getting all this new stuff (I am a bit out > of the ordinary, as I run an A3000). I've gotten email on this, and now a post. I guess I should publicly post about it. By "Too bad it takes so long for Europeans to come up to American standards" I *did* mean including such factors as high taxes, lower income, and 2x price tags on computer equipment. I was expressing sympathy and to a certain extent empathy. Actually, the "lower income" is open to debate. Denmark has zero homeless people because of the social programs there. I on the other hand have stepped over many homeless people in the streets of New York. Of course, the huge number of people sleeping in the streets is offset by the few rich people that are so rich it ruins the averages. *** Of course, this has nothing to do with Amigas and should be taken to a *** different newsgroup. The point is that the game designers will make games multitaskor at least return to the OS without rebooting when their market demands it. I claim that the market will be right when Euopeans gets 030's, tons of RAM, and HDs. This can happen because they get higher incomes or lower computer costs. Tom