Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!well!farren From: farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Lemmings - a tutorial Part IV Message-ID: <23998@well.sf.ca.us> Date: 3 Apr 91 07:33:34 GMT References: <1991Mar29.230632.7066@grebyn.com> <1991Mar30.012529.7807@neon.Stanford.EDU> Lines: 19 mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes: >Most Amiga owners are *NOT* programmers, nor do they want to be. The Amiga >is popular MOSTLY among game players, followed by desktop video users. Yes, that is true. But if you offer them products which FORCE them to remain only game players, then game players is all that they will ever be. Nintendo owners will never make good programmers. On the other hand, I've met a large number of kids, generally between 12 and 16, who bought Amigas for the good games and discovered, almost by accident, that there were other things you can do with the machine (surprise, surprise!). You know, somehow it's THAT attitude that *I'd* like to encourage. (A large number, by the way, translates to EVERY kid who owns an Amiga that I've ever met. I know NO kids who have Amigas who aren't interested in other things than games - even if that's where they started. To presume that all they are, or ever will be, interested in is game playing is condescending to the extreme.) -- Mike Farren farren@well.sf.ca.us