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- From: pascal@CAM.ORG (Pascal Gosselin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
- Subject: Re: What should Apple do to the Mac to make it better for games?
- Message-ID: <C05B3x.1Dn@CAM.ORG>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 22:43:08 GMT
- References: <1htqadINNe5g@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Dec31.121602.1310@nntp.hut.fi>
- Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada
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- jmunkki@vipunen.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) writes:
- >My main message here is that the Macintosh hardware is perfectly ok for
- >writing some awesome games. What we lack is the talent to write the
- >games. To create this talent, we have to get teenagers interested in
- >programming the Macintosh. Assembly language and fast animation will
- >follow automatically.
-
- >Just a wild idea.
-
- Actually, the whole concept has been bothering me too. I did my first
- programming steps when I was 12yrs old, on the TI-99 4/A. Learning basic
- on my own took a week, within a month I had outgrown the standard basic
- and got TI's Extended Basic as a gift. This was an incredible programming
- language to do basic games. Sprites were in software, auto-wraparound,
- with calls like 'call coinc' to check for proximity of objects.
-
- I worked on the Apple II later on, but the BASIC wasn't as good (but it
- did offer two graphics pages in hi-res, neat POKEs, etc...).
-
- The question remains: How the h*ll are the kids of today going to learn
- to program without a university degree ?
-
- I'd LOVE to see someone come up with a development environment on the Mac
- that would let children (starting at 8, you need to know a little math)
- program games. It would be Basic-like, and have tons of high-level
- graphics calls to handle sprites, sounds, edge detection, etc... It would
- also be multi-threaded, so that individual objects on the screen could have
- their own intelligence. I would pay $200 for such a program.
-
- The question is: Who's gonna write it ? :-)
-
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