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- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Amiga programmers in deep shit...
- Date: 31 Dec 1995 23:36:48 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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- Zvonko Tesic - Graficki fak. (ztesic@jagor.srce.hr) wrote:
- : you don't think so?
-
- They have been for years...
-
- : how about a cd as standard... what can you fit anymore on floppy disks?
- : how about a harddisk as a standard? games could be more faster...
-
- All amiga now should be sold with a CD rom drive? And now say CD is
- standart on amiga... bad idea for the millions that where not FORCED to
- get an AT cdrom drive. If you dont care about games, a <100$ drive is
- plenty enought. So lets not force people to get HW they dont need or
- dont want.
-
- What fit or not on floppy is another matter. AT should DEFENETLY publish
- a development CD rom with EVERYTHING on it.(OS/books/dev env etc..) and
- also have a version on floppy with at least the OS :)
-
- HD... I consider this a standart. The amiga floppy controler is more
- flexible & knowed so its a nice option for games that take over all
- the computer resources. And faster dont mean better: You can load from
- floppy without ANY repercution on game play, but from HD you will see
- jerkyness will accessing.
-
- : how can someone tell that hdd is standard when i personaly know many
- : people not having harddisk... :( new amigas are sold without standard
- : hdd... what a shit...
-
- They are standart on productive machine... Software house like ADPro have
- no benefit developing thinking of floppy only users, game developer do.
- And you can make your game HD instalable or requiring a HD if the game
- 'deverse' it.
-
- : how about a faster transition to ppc?
-
- you want to learn the PPC chip? get a bebox, powermah or unix/nt box
-
- : aarrgh.... i hate amiga programming.... :(
-
- Its actually my prefered env compared to macos, windows... but that
- doesn't say much :)
-
- : just think how life of average pc programmer is great... they have cd,
- : hdd, hd-disks, fast cpu-s, they can use C no need for asm...
- : the only bad thing might be programming under win95... ehmmm..
-
- Nha, its hell... & HD/cdrom dont cost more for the amiga then PC.
- (I find scsi2 drive ~10$ cheaper then IDE, 149$ for the 540meg quantum
- scsi2 drive) .. oh, PC also have to buy a scsi controler (integrated
- scsi motherboard are rare).
-
- They 'only' use C because intel architecture is pure hell...
-
- Stephan
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