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- Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 17:30:19 EST
- From: <LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Message-ID: <92355.173019LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Hardware...
- References: <makiVB1w165w@lakes.trenton.sc.us> <1h1bp1INNojf@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
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- In article <1h1bp1INNojf@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>, gujn@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Jeremy
- Nelson) says:
- >
- >>it that way. (Okay, so there's _one_ guy out there with a 4000 who
- >>lusts to play the hottest 3-d 8 bit plane parallax scrolling mega-game
- >>while running a word processor, balancing his checkbook, and rendering
- >>an object in 3-d. Fine. But most people can't do that.)
-
- If anyone wants their program to be compatible with AGA (or above) chip
- sets, then the OS has to be left alone to run graphics.library. The
- side effect is that the machine can also run other user programs or
- device drivers. (like some high end graphics card, PC VGA cards or
- whatever that will be available when RTG or DIG become available.)
- >
- >Of course, on the Amiga it is simple... every game loads of the floppy disk,
- >turfs the OS... no worries. Of course if your machine has a hard disk,
- >or heaven forbid a non-standard device with it's own software driver,
- >installing the software there is going to be a problem. But why worry?
-
- Yeap. :( If only those game/demo writers can do something right about
- timing loops and other bad practices. The reason why they kill the OS
- is because they AREN'T good enough as programmers to have their program
- multitasks. Even they lower PC games installs on a HD and returns to
- the DOS prompt without having to reboot.
-
- >Common guys, what sells computers is software which you plug in and
- >it works. Simple as that. If you want a great machine you need to have
- >a big installeed base, which needs great software. If software isn't
- >going to work on the new wonder machines, then people won't buy the
- >wonder machines, and the hardware ages...
-
- Agree. Wish more people can see it that way. Having the fastest
- machine in the block with the the wiz-bang bells & gadgets are NICE
- if and only if your software uses it (or can run without crashing).
- Without that, no ones wants new hardware features.
-
- >Jem. Jeremy Nelson. gujn@uniwa.uwa.edu.au :\ => :)
-
- K. C. Lee
- Elec. Eng. Grad. Student
-