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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dungeon Master, updates.
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Date: 20 Oct 88 05:37:43 GMT
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Whoa!  Someone just said they liked ZOOM.

I did, too, when I saw it in the store.  I really did.

So I bought a copy (ZOOM, by Discovery Software, the prior purveyors of the
Marauder program).

ZOOM does *NOT* function on a 68020- or a 68030-equipped Amiga.

My suspicion as to the nature of the problem is self-modifying code, in
complete controversion of the Amiga Programming Guidelines issued at the
FIRST Amiga Developers' Conference in Monterey, California, May 1985, and
re-iterated in all the RKM and other publications.

To those who've sent me mail in this regards (programs not functioning on
the 68020 and 68030 Amigas), I haven't forgotten your email (it's still
stacked up hre in my mailbox), it's just that I'm putting together a
comprehensive list of software that violates Amiga programming guidelines.
I'm re-running EVERYTHING I have.

Don't laugh; for a while I purchased EVERYTHING that was being published for
the Amiga until I became weary of being burned time and time and time again.
People in this area (Silicon Valley) still joke (and I laugh along with them!)
of how I used to follow the UPS trucks around just to be the first to have
some new Amiga software the instant it would arrive at the dealer (our
dealer is HT Electronics in Sunnyvale, CA).

One person pestered Psygnosis DAILY with long-distance phone calls to
England just to get a 68020-usable version of BARBARIAN; this was Ken Hodel.

And let us not forget Chuck McManis' comments : "CRAZY CARS" in which
the code calls Kickstart routines directly ... anyone get CRAZY CARS to
work under 1.3 yet?  :-)


A *LOT* of people (at least in this area) have 68010, 68020 and 68030
Amigas, and we're ALL Amiga Fanatics, serious users, etc.   No one ever
complained about their computer operating too fast.

So it's DISGUSTING how some software producers screw the Amiga and the
people who buy Amiga-related products.  Don't they realize we WILL publicize
their sins?

Stay tuned for my list of offending software (before the end of the month);
some of the names on that list WILL surprise you.


Thad Floryan [thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ...!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad]