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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Games That Multitask (extreme bogosity)
Message-ID: <10730@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 22 Dec 88 23:25:26 GMT
References: <1044@hub.ucsb.edu> <230@xrtll.UUCP>
Reply-To: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY
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In article <230@xrtll.UUCP> mark@xrtll.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes:

[regarding dragon's lair]
>The by-passign of the operating system was also necessary to achieve the
>framing rate which allowed to synchronize the audio with the video.  While
>the game is being played, more data is being loaded all the time, as well as
>on the fly decompression of both audio and video.  The code is already so
>tight, that if the game is played in High Resolution mode (a 320 by 240
>picture centered on a high res, interlace screen) there are not enough
>cycles to play the audio track.  Any system overhead would have made the
>game unplayable.

This is completely bogus. It is possible to totally take over the hardware 
(and disable multitasking and thus system overhead) without throwing
out DOS or being unfriendly in any way. If there isn't enough memory, simply
say so, or say that "This program needs 400K and will probably have to
be run standalone on 512K machines."

The WCS on an Amiga 1000 was used by DL because it represents extra memory.
So what if I've got 3 megs of expansion memory? Do they they use it instead?
No. To implement copy protection they invent that bogus story and clobber
my machine. My money spent on memory is wasted. My money spent on AmigaDOS
is wasted.

I don't even CARE if they used the WCS, as long as they DON'T use it if
my machine has enough memory to get around it!

What a bunch of two faced liars. Makes me want to spit.

Sean
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