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From: koster@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Herbert West)
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Subject: Re: Software queries and comments
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Date: 8 Aug 88 18:38:23 GMT
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(The gist of the article was why do people write programs that take over
the machine)

Simple: You get more power out of the Amiga that way.

There is a definite overhead in writing a nice program that fits into the
multi-tasking environment. Things are slower.

If you want to do fast animation, double-buffered, you MUST take over the
display with LoadView(). This means no pulling down of screens, etc.

What annoys me is a program that REALLY takes over the whole machine,
like Arkanoid, Wizball, Marble Madness, etc,etc,etc. and you have to reboot
to exit. There is no excuse for that. It is one thing to hog the machine's
resources for a while and another to take them permanently.