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- From: ilaskey@cix.compulink.co.uk (Iain Laskey)
- Subject: Re: Jaguar, Falcon, Atari generally
- Reply-To: ilaskey@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:54:00 +0000
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- In article <92351.130615SML108@psuvm.psu.edu>, SML108@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
- >Those of us that are Atari ST, Lynx, Falcon or potential Jaguar fans
- >would be well advised to read the most recent issue of ST Report...
- >
- >Double Click Software, a small company which has made some utterly
- >fantastic software for the ST, spent $3000 of its own money to go
- >visit Atari Headquarters to show off their product _Game Designer's
- >Workbench_, here are some highlights but I do not do this terrifying
- >article justice merely by describing it, read it for yourself, I beseech
- >you as I think I have finally been convinced to abandon atari by it...
- >
- >1) DC software asked atari if they had a removable hard drive so they
- > could just bring a cartridge from their hard rive and load it there.
- > Atari sad "Suuuuuuurrrrre", so they that's what they did. When they
- > arrived they were first told that they didn't have any such drive but
- > then they cobbed one together after an hour or so. After fiddling
- > with the drive for an hour and failing to load the software the
- > Atari Engineers proclaimed that "the cartridge was formatted with
- > s___tty 3rd party software." As it turned out, it had worked just
- > fine but that it had an empty C partition and all of the software
- > was on the D partition. By the way, the s___tty 3rd party software
- > was from ICD, a really good company...
- >
- >2) Leonard Tramiel and his idiot engineer friends constantly heckled
- > these developers during their visit with such lines as "What would
- > be your reaction if we sued you for copyright infringement for
- > HacMan II?" And remember, this is the guy who's now in charge of
- > the Jaguar... Way to go Lenny Boy! Bring atari back to the top
- > of the fortune 500 by suing all of its former developers! Genius!
- > Master Stroke!
- >
- >3) Upon showing the lynx developers the Game Designer's Workbench,
- > they heckled it and said that it stunk because it didn't contain features
- > for automatic sprite scaling and rotation. The DC people attempted to
- > explain that the reason the lynx had that feature was because it was in
- > the lynx hardware not the software and that additionally they had written
- > such routines for GDW and could easily incorporate them, but this just
- > got them a chorus of boos... So now we know why most recent lynx games
- > are lame... Additionally, Atari has been trying to get the lynx developer-
- s
- > to move to the TT, but they refuse to do so because that would mean they
- > would lose access to their favorite text editor making them incapable of
- > of programming. Oh the PAIN! Oh the PAIN!
- >
- >3) The one shining star in this visit was Bill Rehbok. He gave DC software
- > a Falcon for their troubles and apparently he along with the TT programmer-
- s
- > were the only people who were polite to these people.
- >
- >Well, those are some highlights. READ THIS ARTICLE! There's a lot more
- >idiocy from the Katzenjammer kids I haven't mentioned... I have an ST, a lyn-
- x,
- >and an atari 800. I was planning on buying a Falcon and I may still do so.
- >After reading this article, I was ready to buy a new Amiga instead. However,-
-
- >all it took was an hour of articles on comp.sys.amiga.advocacy to make me
- >realize that they have similar problems as big as Atari's. So now I'm in
- >coast mode ready to abandon them if only some third party would come
- >out with a computer with the best features of the Falcon (DSP), and the Amiga-
-
- >(Graphics), and a 32 MHz 68030... I hear Electronic Arts is working on
- >something interesting along these lines...
- >
- >Scott
- >"What would be your reaction if we sued you for copyright infringement for
- > HacMan II?"
- >
- >
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- I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours,
- But I think that God's got a sick sense of humour - ML Gore
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- ilaskey@cix.compulink.co.uk | Iain R Laskey | Atari ST & Unix user
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