Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Mike Farren Tutorial. Message-ID: <1991Apr7.145023.2080@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 7 Apr 91 14:50:23 GMT References: <20198@cbmvax.commodore.com> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 51 In article mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes: > This illustrates exactly what the rest of the industry says about Commodore. > The company comes across as not knowing what kind of machine they have. Thank god. If they had decided to sell a game machine I for one wouldn't buy it. You, apparently, want a company selling a dedicated game platform for your software: fine, code for the Sega Genesis. > Compare the A500 with the lowest-end Mac. The classic has the ability to run > a significant part of the business applications (it has 1Meg of RAM and separate > memory for screen). These days business applications require a hard disk as well. Put a hard disk on both your machines, and all of a sudden you have an extra 2 Meg on the 500. > I submit that you won't be crippling your OS by adding the additional functionality > of hard disk access. You weren't paying attention: they didn't say that. They said they hadn't written it that way and they don't have the resources currently available to rewrite it. They took advantage of the real power of the Amiga when they wrote it. Why don't you think about this: A500s with hard disks are going to have more than 512K of memory, so if you're loading from a hard disk... just leave the O/S alive. Make it "Requirements: Amiga with 512K. With hard disk, 1M is required". > You will only be making all these screamers on the net > happy because software written for the A500 will support more features of the > (far fewer) workstation class machines. What screamers on the net? By and large the folks on the net tend to think blowing away the O/S should be an action of last resort, not a basic part of doing business. > Just think of how well AMax would work if they had access to the low level drivers. Amax is a kludge. Have you heard of those guys writing a MAC ROM clone? I'd rather they spent the resources you want them to spend on rewriting the drivers to suit you, on working with them to run Mac programs under AmigaOS. > * 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! * If that's the case, what are you complaining about? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .