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- From: tbk@sn.no (Thore Bjerklund Karlsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Demo/game to OS frien
- Date: 25 Jan 1996 19:14:12 +0100
- Organization: SN Internett
- Message-ID: <4e8h9k$mp8@sinsen.sn.no>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: sinsen.sn.no
-
- (Paal Christian Currie)
-
- >>>That's what the problem is. Hardware banging programs take over the
- >>>whole machine.
- >>Can't see the problem here..
-
- >You have never owned a GFX card I see.....
-
- Please follow the thread.. The whole issue here was whether it was any
- point using the OS when you used non-standard gfx things that would
- *NOT* work on a gfx-card.
-
- >>Things like demos/games obviously need their processing power for them
-
- >Yeah, right. Super Stardust maybe, but adventure games, tetris etc??? N
-
- I never said adventure games and tetris need to take over the machine.
- Did I? Didn't think so. But life is not only adventure games and
- tetris, in case you didn't notice. Do you think Super Stardust would
- be the same using ONLY the OS (and to top it off:) and written ONLY in
- C? Don't know myself, because I have never seen anything but a demo
- version of it.. :)
-
- >>We simply don't have powerful enough machines to do it otherwise (yet)
-
- >In a very short time we will.
-
- Not everyone. What about everyone that aren't going to upgrade within
- a year or so? Should we forget about them and code things rich kids
- want?
-
- >If you are planning on coding something t
- >will work on my machine, but not on the one I will have in 6 months, th
- >your program is gone from my harddisk. No "but"'s, no "if"'s, it's gone
- >Why not do it right now, and then laugh at all that code that breaks, a
- >say that those coders are lamers etc.
-
- Hey, like I said earlier. As far as I know my code works on most
- machines, haven't heard any complaints. If I know something breaks, I
- fix it. I never say "fuck it, I won't fix that". Why should I?
-
- >>In a perfect world everybody would use the OS.
-
- >Yeah, right. So for UNIX programmers, it's a perfect world??
-
- Have you ever wondered why most graphical Unix-environments need 16++
- MB of RAM and tons of processing power to even get started? If that is
- a perfect world, I DON'T WANT TO BE A PART OF IT.
-
- >>In a perfect world we would have a perfect OS.
-
- >Dream on. Ever heard of IRIX?? Now that was a perfect OS.....
-
- Running on a fast machine. And why do you say "dream on" if such an OS
- exists? And BTW: It's sloooow.. Played a 3D asteroids game on
- IRIX/SGI once, even when I degraded the detail to only a few rotating
- dots and a couple of line-vectors, it jerked. And that was after ALL
- other tasks were killed. Is that what you get for using only OS? I
- don't want it.
-
- >>This is *not* a perfect world.
-
- >Bosnia, Haiti, Middle East, Tjetchenia (ok, the spelling sucks), world
- >whale hunting (?), no oil left in about 50 yr etc. Damn, looks like you
-
- Yep, I'm dead serious.. :)
-
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- Num.22.22: .. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants
- were with him.
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