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- From: pmv@bnr.co.uk (Paul M Venkatesh)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AT UK redundancies
- Date: 23 Jan 1996 14:08:48 GMT
- Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, London Road, Harlow, England.
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- In article <4dns2o$ovu@alterdial.uu.net>,
- Chris Hall <chall@clover.cleaf.com> wrote:
- >
- >Magazines should urge game programmers to do their software right. One
- >thing they could do is never give them over a 50% rating on a non-hard
- >drive installable game or a game that requires the user to hack a script
- >together with PD utils just to make their game work. We should never have
- >to use PAL, RUNLAME, KILLAGA, etc. just to get the game to work. This crap
- >programming is hurting the Amiga market big time!
- >
- I agree with the sentiments but it is a bit harsh. I would advocate reducing
- the rating of a non-hard disk installable game by 20+% depending on the
- amount of disk swapping/waiting required. Why all these Amiga magazines
- which are supposed to be advocating the serious use of Amigas don't take a
- stand on this issue to try and bring a lot of the games publishers into the
- 90's, and to encourage the readers to upgrade, I don't know.
-
- Paul.
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