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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: LEMMINGS -- 750,000 bytes & Rising -- Take it to .advocacy! Re: Lemmings - a tutorial Part IV
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Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1991 05:30:45 GMT

In article <1991Apr5.030730.28921@marlin.jcu.edu.au> cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Colin Adams) writes:
>In article <1991Apr4.231416.9809@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>>
>>Aww...Poor lame lazygame programmer, can't even manage machine resources.
>>Any FAST ram is an advantage because you can run calculations
>>in parallel with blitter in nasty mode, and lots of screen bandwidth
>>without ANY slowdown. Buffering data in fast ram is a PLUS because
>>its faster. Ok so you only have 400k chip free when the OS is running,
>>so what? PUT THE EXECUTABLE IN FAST MEMORY. It's a waste to put it in
>>chipmemory. If you'd use the damn OS, your code would be relocatable.
>>
>
>Who cares about the small market that actually has fast memory.
>Even an expanded 500 to 1 meg doesn't have any. Cater for the
>market...
>
	I believe the point was that the upper 512K on an A500
should be used. As I remember things the A500 with 1MB of RAM has
512K chip and 512K that is non-chip and non-fast.

>> With all do respect. F*ck Shadow of the Beast. It's nothing more than
>>a slide show of moving graphics with no design or playability.
>
>Sold a hell of a lot!  That's all that matters for a game programmer.
>
	But that's Psygnosis. Psygnosis games are known simply
for great graphics and their reputation is enough to sell just
that. Most people can't. Games such as SimCity, Dungeon Master
and Populous also sold amazingly well, and although the latter
two do have good graphics none have any real animation.

>>--
>>/~\_______________________________________________________________________/~\
>>|n|   rjc@albert.ai.mit.edu   Amiga, the computer for the creative mind.  |n|
>>|~|                                .-. .-.                                |~|
>>|_|________________________________| |_| |________________________________|_|
>
>
>-- 
>Colin Adams                                  
>Computer Science Department                     James Cook University 
>Internet : cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au               North Queensland
>'And on the eight day, God created Manchester'


	-- Ethan

Q: How many Comp Sci majors does it take to change a lightbulb
A: None. It's a hardware problem.