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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Path: cix.compulink.co.uk!usenet
- From: jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Jolyon Ralph")
- Subject: Re: New slot box Amiga
- Message-ID: <DoBqEw.5sG@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Organization: Compulink Information eXchange
- References: <Do9C1I.zo@eskimo.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 19:35:20 GMT
- X-News-Software: Ameol32
-
- > So when we design new machines, WHY MUST WE figure in compatability
- > with THESE CRAP PROGRAMS? I say screw them. I wish AT would issue a
- > little more control over these developers. Hardware banging should be
- > left for drivers and low-level libraries, not the games.
-
- That's fine if the drivers and low-level libraries for games exist, but
- they don't. With so little CPU horsepower in the Amiga, games developers
- have little choice except to exploit every avenue they can to produce the
- maximum performance.
-
- Games have such a (relatively) short shelf-life that long-term
- portability from system to system isn't regarded as of high importance.
-
- Jolyon
-