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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: 25 Jan 1996 21:47:28 +0100
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4e8q90$o22@serpens.rhein.de>
- References: <4e8h9k$mp8@sinsen.sn.no>
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- tbk@sn.no (Thore Bjerklund Karlsen) writes:
-
- >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?
-
- Again a sign that you really do not want to argue. The choice of
- the programming language has nothing to do with compatibility.
-
- >Hey, like I said earlier. As far as I know my code works on most
- >machines, haven't heard any complaints.
-
- That's not the issue. Those people that cannot run your c0d3 probably
- gave up to complain. After all, you are not the first one, no ?
-
- >Have you ever wondered why most graphical Unix-environments need 16++
- >MB of RAM and tons of processing power to even get started?
-
- No. I know that it needs that much RAM because it a) deals with much
- higher resolutions, b) does much more than a c0d3r has ever thought
- about and c) it is written in portable high level language.
-
- Different goals, different requirements.
-
- BTW, the X server here uses about 1MB and not 16MB.
-
- >exists? And BTW: It's sloooow..
-
- No, it is not slow, it is just the wrong tool for the job.
-
- >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.
-
- Do you know why ?
-
- >And that was after ALL
- >other tasks were killed.
-
- You still have several tasks that are running and none of these was
- made for real-time response.
-
- >Is that what you get for using only OS? I
- >don't want it.
-
- No, that's what you get when your OS doesn't support real-time response.
-
- --
- Michael van Elst
-
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