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Subject: Re: Hardware Idiots ?
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Date: 27 May 91 09:05:23 GMT
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In article <21889@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:

>I'm probably the one who used the term "idiots", and it certainly doesn't apply
>to anyone who bangs the bits on these systems.  I meant it specifically to
>apply to the people who go directly to the hardware for absolutely no good
>reason, other than the fact that they don't like the way the OS does a thing,
>or they think the Amiga is some big C64.  Or they're just plain lazy.  Or they

The Amiga IS a big C64 with lots of memory and nice custom chips. You only
need an assembler to program those wonderfull games. A program like Shadow
of the Beast can't be programmed using OS graphic calls.

>-- 
>Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
>   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh      PLINK: hazy     BIX: hazy
>      "That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight" -R.E.M.

-Erwin-