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From: manes@vger.nsu.edu ((Mark D. Manes), Norfolk State University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re:  GODS demo posted to ab20
Message-ID: <889.2817fd72@vger.nsu.edu>
Date: 26 Apr 91 14:14:10 GMT
References: <8805@crash.cts.com> <1991Apr25.094718.905@hollie.rdg.dec.com>
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In article <1991Apr25.094718.905@hollie.rdg.dec.com>, jamie@sievax.enet.dec.com (Jamie Badman) writes:
> In article <8805@crash.cts.com>, uzun@pnet01.cts.com (Roger Uzun)
> writes:
>>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.

AGREE!

>>
>>-Roger
>>
>>UUCP: {hplabs!hp-sdd ucsd nosc}!crash!pnet01!uzun
>>ARPA: crash!pnet01!uzun@nosc.mil
>>INET: uzun@pnet01.cts.com
>>
> 
> 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

Uh, because that will increase their market??  Uh, perhaps there is 
no real reason for it not to run on A3000s except laziness?

I dare anyone to say "They had to write code that would only run on the
68000 -- to release the real power of the Amiga".

It doesn't wash.  There are _no mysteries_ when writing software for
all of the Amiga platforms.  Ignoring the accelerated Amiga is very
very stupid.

> 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.

And this coming from a fella that works at Digital, where they pride
themselves on having ONE software platform called VMS...

> 
> 
> 				Jamie.

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