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- Subject: Re: Demo/game to OS frien
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- From: breese@imada.ou.dk (Bjorn Reese)
- Message-ID: <1996Jan26.210008.1858@imada.ou.dk>
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- Organization: Dept. of Math. & Computer Science, Odense University, Denmark
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 21:00:08 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
-
- Storm (storm@ar.ar.com.au) wrote:
- > You don't seem to accept that there are people who wish to program
- > Amigas, not AmigaDOS. Telling me that I must not hit the hardware and
- > must use the OS for my hobby programming - you might as well tell me
- > that I must not use C or Assembly but must instead use COBOL - you'll
- > get the same reaction from me.
-
- Now, does this attitude seem familiar? .... Oh yes, I felt like that
- once myself :)
-
- Cobol is, like assembly, a thing from the past living on borrowed time.
-
- I don't want to spoil your fun and pleasure of programming, but what
- I realised many moons ago is that there's no future in that sort of
- thinking. In the future optimisation will be done by the compiler,
- machines will have all sorts of strange configurations, etc. etc.
- So I decided to (1) drop assembly in preference of C/C++, and
- (2) use the OS to support all kind of display hardware.
-
- Currently I'm developing an 8-way scrolling action game in my sparetime.
- It is written in C, which gives me two big advantages: (1) a _much_
- quicker development cycle, and (2) the possibility to port code.
- I'm working on three different interfaces: (a) a lowres screen, (b) a
- window to put on any screen (for gfx boards), and (c) a window for
- Unix/X. I'm trying out all sorts of different game and AI ideas, which
- in the end will make the game much more fun, rather than trying to
- press out another useless bob of the blitter.
-
- PS: This is not a flame, but rather a take-it-or-leave-it advice from
- a former hardwarebanger.
- --
- Bjorn Reese Email: breese@imada.ou.dk
- Odense University, Denmark URL: http://www.imada.ou.dk/~breese
-
- "It's getting late in the game to show any pride or shame" - Marillion
-