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- From: dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: I am NOT making this up, OK? (was Re: Closed ... <ho hum>)
- Date: 14 Dec 1992 05:08:38 GMT
- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
- Lines: 78
- Message-ID: <1gh4smINNm72@life.ai.mit.edu>
- References: <11387@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <71396@cup.portal.com> <11419@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
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- In article <11419@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
- >No. I told you MY opinion of what resolutions were applicable to
- >games. **{\em WHOEVER}** said TrueColour 640x480 was for games
- >simply didn't know what they were talking about.
-
- While I'm WAY beyond caring about this whole thing from a technical
- standpoint, you really DID say (approximately), "No, Dave, don't lie,
- they couldn't have said that because that's ridiculous."
-
- >Dave used this statement (by Atari) to demonstrate that a 1Meg machine
- >was insufficient. I demonstrated that this statement (by Atari) was
- >incorrect, thus neutralizing Dave's argument that 1Meg was insufficient.
-
- The stupid thing about this whole stupid debate is that it's Atari HQ
- that was stupid in the first place! I NEVER said 1 meg was
- insufficient EXCEPT in reference to Atari's stated (to me) desire to
- see games written for their whiz-bang 640x480x16bit color mode. Jeez,
- give me a break here; I couldn't care less whether the Falcon has 1 meg
- or 50 -- that's hardly the deciding factor.
-
- Howard jumps on my case about video bandwidth, Warwick moans that I'm
- making stuff up. Sheesh! I'm just telling you:
-
- 1. What they told me to my face. (I WAS listening when
- they listed off their ludicrous pie-in-the-sky
- "requirements for GW;" the best one was "we should
- be able to write Steel Talons with it out of the box --
- on a stock ST")
-
- 2. Based on what ATARI HQ SAID THEY WANTED, the amount of
- RAM they put in the baseline model was insufficient.
- I told them that and got only blank stares, YES, DESPITE
- MY MATH BEING CORRECT.
-
- Let's try it once again: I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP. Regardless of what
- the "Atari Falcon User's Manual" says, I AM NOT LYING. Sorry if this
- is hard to believe, but I have NO INTEREST in hurting Atari or the
- Falcon. I simply DON'T CARE about either. Both are doing a perfectly
- adequate job of nose-diving on their own; I don't need to waste my
- energy shoving them into their graves.
-
- If people post things that I think are obviously factually incorrect
- (e.g., I don't know what I heard when I met with Atari employees,
- closed architectures are great, the Falcon is the best machine in the
- universe, the world would be a better place if all software were
- copylefted, etc.) I may feel compelled to respond. Call me a nut, but
- I find virtue in argument, EVEN IN THIS GROUP! It's crazy, I know, but
- hey, we all have our little eccentricities.
-
- But this is NOT me vs. Atari or me vs. the Falcon or me vs. the Atari
- party line slaves.
-
- If *you* want to buy a Falcon, great! Have fun with it. I'd never buy
- one in a million years, but hey, that's just me. Maybe as far as
- you're concerned I'm an ultra-capitalist slimebag who finds the lure of
- 100,000,000 potential buyers of my software too hard to resist any
- longer. You're certainly entitled to your own opinion.
-
- >Sure, 2M would be lovely, but I'd hardly call 1Meg "insufficient", when
- >it is equivalent to 1000 32x32 256 colour sprites, or:
-
- In my personal opinion (which I'm sure you will ignore since you don't
- want to hear it), the Falcon has no chance in hell of succeeding, in
- the U.S. market at least, no matter what RAM configuration they baseline
- it with. Since I live in the U.S. and probably will for quite some
- time, I hardly find it worth *my* while to argue the point.
-
- However, if *you* do, then feel free. But don't put stupid words in my
- mouth and then call me a liar because of your (pl.) inability to pay
- attention to what I *actually* said.
-
- (BTW, I'm not mad here, just *incredibly* frustrated.)
-
- Dave Baggett
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