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From: soh@andromeda.trl.OZ.AU (kam hung soh)
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Subject: Re: Psygnosis Missed the Point!
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.222755.16434@trl.oz.au>
Date: 13 Jun 91 22:27:55 GMT
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buffa@krakatoa.inria.fr (Michel Buffa) writes:

>.... If people suppose that everybody has an HD, has an
>accelerator card, has a 3000, we won't see games like starglider 2, Carrier
>Command that have a better 3D on a simple 68000 amiga than the flight sims on
>IBM 486. Programmers must have constraints to be good.

Good programmers recognise constraints, but do not force users to live
with them.

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