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From: jamie@sievax.enet.dec.com (Jamie Badman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re:  GODS demo posted to ab20
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Date: 25 Apr 91 09:47:18 GMT
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In article <8805@crash.cts.com>, uzun@pnet01.cts.com (Roger Uzun)
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>From: uzun@pnet01.cts.com (Roger Uzun)
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>Subject: Re:  GODS demo posted to ab20
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>Just because the do not write for a particular platform, Jamie Badman
>says.  The A3000 is an Amiga, the bitmap brothers alledgedly write
>AMIGA software.  When one writes AMIGA software is runs on all AMIGAS.
>When one writes software that runs on some amigas, namely a500's with
>512k of CHIP RAM and 1 floppy, and no accelerator, for example,
>one is not writing for the AMIGA platform, merely for a subset of
>machines out there.
>
>There is no excuse at this stage for software that does not
>support all standard amigas, programs written in 1985 do it.
>To ignore accelerated machines, is pure laziness.
>
>-Roger
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No, the platform they are writing for is the basic Amiga 500; the mass
market. In Europe the majority of Amigas sold are A500 machines. They
are in business; why should they spend their time making the games run
on all the possible configurations of the machine if they stand to make
little, if any, extra income from doing so ? I guess a reasonable
assumption is that the more powerful an Amiga configuration the more
likely it is that it's owner is more interested in using it for serious
purposes. The basic A500 user is interested, on the whole, in games and
that's what the Bitmaps deal in.

Sure, it would be nice if the software ran on everything, but these guys
are trying to make a living.

And all this doesn't detract from the fact that this entire discussion
stemmed from a misunderstanding, on your part, from my initial
statement.


				Jamie.