Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!cbmvax!andy From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Information on Amiga Technical Reference Seri Message-ID: <22483@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 14 Jun 91 22:59:47 GMT References: <21956@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1603@glyph.kingston.ny.us> <1991Jun3.140107.945@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> <1057.284e0dbf@vger.nsu.edu> <91158.110654GHGAQA4@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be> <1062.2853935b@vger.nsu.edu> mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes: >I don't know how many Amiga Users/programmers NEED to see with the sources to >applications (or games), even though it would surely be educational. It would It depends on how serious a game player you are, I guess. :-) >be great to see some of the algorithms to ADPro, for example. The Amiga OS is >a COMMON piece of code that EVERY application has the potential to require to >function. If DPaint and CygnusEd (to name two programs) required the programmers >to have knowledge of the internal workings of Lemmings, then Lemmings source should >be made public. > >In other words, the Amiga OS makes over 400 functions (more under 2.0) public, while >Lemmings et al make none public. There is the difference. Except we'd like people to program to the external interface of the OS, rather than to the internal workings. Having the source available is often educational in the wrong way. "Knowing" that register A5 is free, or that a routine happens to not touch A1 is the usual outcome. andy > >By the way, I wouldn't mind it if publishers did indeed publish source to their >games (after sales diminish, of course). > >-- >**************************************************** >* I want games that look like Shadow of the Beast * >* but play like Leisure Suit Larry. * >**************************************************** -- andy finkel {uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy Commodore-Amiga, Inc. "2.0 is not the answer. 2.0 is the question. Yes is the answer." Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.