Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!brolga!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!marlin.jcu.edu.au!cpca From: cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Colin Adams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Lemmings - a tutorial Part V (last) Message-ID: <1991Apr2.040412.26203@marlin.jcu.edu.au> Date: 2 Apr 91 04:04:12 GMT References: <1991Mar27.211819.19370@neon.Stanford.EDU> Organization: James Cook University of North Queensland Lines: 41 In article mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes: >In article <1991Mar27.211819.19370@neon.Stanford.EDU> espie@flamingo.Stanford.EDU (Marc Espie) writes: >>In article mykes@sega0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes: >>>In article <23837@well.sf.ca.us> farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren) writes: >>[stuff deleted] >>??? hey ! There aren't only amiga 500 with 512 K around. >> >Anything correctly written for the 512K Amiga runs on all Amigas. > >Populous is a port from the PC. As long as Amiga marketing data for >software is dismal, big companies won't make the investment required >to make truly awesome Amiga games. The only companies that do make >Amiga originals that survive are European. Sorry to interrupt the personal flame war, but I believe Populus is a port from the ST. It was programmed by Bullfrog in England, where the major machines for games are the ST and the Amiga, and people still have 512k and no hard drive. >Yes, I feel a lot uneasy about many games on the Amiga. I can't stand >it when I see an action game written in 'C'. It is easy to tell which >games are done this way, and they suck. I've seen a demo from some people here on campus who did their 3rd year graphics project on the Amiga in C with critical bits in assember. They did take over the system but it is in C and is very very fast. It's called Nebulas (looks like Backlash) and you should be able to ftp it from somewhere. If you know what you're doing you can make C very fast... >******************************************************** >* 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! * >******************************************************** -- Colin Adams Computer Science Department James Cook University Internet : cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au North Queensland 'And on the eight day, God created Manchester'