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From: david@starsoft.hou.tx.us (Dave Lowrey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re:  GODS demo posted to ab20
Message-ID: <david.0899@starsoft.hou.tx.us>
Date: 27 Apr 91 15:52:28 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.games
Organization: Starbound Software Group
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In article <1991Apr25.094718.905@hollie.rdg.dec.com> jamie@sievax.enet.dec.com (Jamie Badman) writes:
>
> >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
> >
> >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
> 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.
>

Why should it cost more to develop for multiple platforms?

The RKM's clearly state the rules for developing "machine independant"
code. If the developers would follow those rules, then their applications
would automatically run on all Amigas, without any extra work needed.

In fact, they now have a larger potential customer base, without any
extra cost or work!

There is absolutely no excuse for a program to run on a 500, and not
run on a 2X00 or 3000!

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