Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!jdickson From: jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Lemmings - a tutorial Part IV Message-ID: <1991Apr1.195120.10617@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: 1 Apr 91 19:51:20 GMT References: <1991Mar29.230632.7066@grebyn.com> Reply-To: jdickson@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jeff Dickson) Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Lines: 48 In article <1991Mar29.230632.7066@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes: >In article mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) writes: >>In article mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes: >> >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 500 is not a workstation. It is a game machine just like the >> Nintendo or the Genesis. 90% of people who have Amiga 500's just stick >> floppies in and reboot. >> >>Sorry, the Amiga 500 is as much a workstation as the Amiga 2000. The >>only difference between the two is that extra 512K and the built-in >>expandability on the 2000. I know people who develop productivity >>software on A500s with two floppy drives. It's a workstation. > >The Amiga 500 is a game machine. Look. Get this clear and then stop squabbling over this sh*t. The Amiga 500 is what you make of it. IF YOU CHOOSE to play games on it, then with respect to you it is a game machine. Otherwise, it is a workstation. I don't own one, I have an A2000, but just because the A500 has a smaller footprint and cost less - doesn't mean it can't run any of the software my A2000 can. >Commodore itself was comparing the A500 to the Nintendo), and only at That was a mistake. I think CBM is doing a fine job furthering the Amiga, but I am sorry the Amiga was not marketed under a seperate cover. CBM has fostered a disreputable reputation of turning out game machines. Few in the business world will take them seriously. Hell, I wouldn't have given them a second look if it weren't for the Amiga! The business world seems to draw the conclusion that if a computer does not cost an arm and a leg, it must be a "game" machine. That's too bad and oh my is that short sighted. I have experience programming on SUN, DEC VAX, and Sperry UNIVAC systems. Back in 1986 I chose to go with the Amiga, because it was the only system that came closer to them and I could afford it. > ckp@grebyn.com \\ / / -Jeff Rest assured the comments herein are my own.