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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Demo/game to OS frien
- Date: 7 Feb 1996 14:59:33 +0100
- Organization: dis-
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- m93kma@sabik.tdb.uu.se (Kristofer Maad) writes:
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- >The point in demo programming getting the _most_ out of a certain
- >hardware configuration.
-
- Is it ? I thought it was to show off.
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- >Tell me, if I write a demo that crams the most out of a stock A500
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- Then you are "ambitious".
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- >with a rather complex display, would anyone be happy if it worked on
- >an A4000 looking exactly the same? I don't think so.
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- Are they happy when it crashes ?
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- >On the other hand, if you want to write software for anything else
- >than to show off the limits of the hardware,
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- Remove that "of the hardware" please :)
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- >I think that people used with hardware bashing are a great resource to
- >us,
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- They are completely useless to "us".
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- >and that they could do a great job implementing algorithms that
- >are OS compliant.
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- I doubt that.
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- Michael van Elst
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