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- From: d89-rbi@dront.nada.kth.se (Ron Birk)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
- Subject: Re: WOW !! Spaceball
- Message-ID: <D89-RBI.93Jan8182526@dront.nada.kth.se>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 17:25:26 GMT
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- In-Reply-To: bosman@fwi.uva.nl's message of Fri, 8 Jan 1993 11:40:57 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan8.114057.10898@fwi.uva.nl> bosman@fwi.uva.nl (Cor Bosman) writes:
-
- > >Yes it is. I'd like to note that there is now a updated version of this
- > >disk as nic.funet.fi:pub/amiga/demos/Demo_Competition/Spaceballs.Demo.DMS
- > >and it works also on these one meg CHIP memory machines.
- >
- > Altho this followup does work, I must say I have NO respect whatsoever
- > for the people of Skid Row, who cracked it. They may have solved
- > the incompatibility problems, but adding their name to the endpart
- > saying 'the trackloader sucked and the code was awful' is really low.
- > All these demos were probably made with a lot of time pressure, and
- > you cant expect it to be 100% They won , cause it was simply the best
- > demo on the party. Maybe Skid Row should pay more attention to
- > their own 'productions' cause more then half the time, their own
- > releases arent what I'd call bugfree.
-
- You are quite right. A better solution would be to only write a short note
- in the beginning that they fixed some bugs. Thats all. To write those silly
- messages is only to write bad about themselves in other words.
-
- And, yes, I could imagine they didn't have too much time to put it all
- together and test it on all machines. BUT! when will they learn some common
- programming rules to get future projects to work? How often doesn't a track
- loader fail because they use a short DBF loop when stepping the header???
- On a 68030 with cache this loop will be far too short!
-
- So all you guys who happen to know someone who wrote one of these demos (or
- know someone who know someone etc). Please! tell them to update their work
- (before SkidRow) and release a version that work!! We like their work and if
- not for other reasons, programs that only work on one machine is very bad
- publicity!
- --
- Ron Birk CS&CE at Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Krogarvagen 11 Projects: PlaySID (Amiga), FanGog (Mac), MonkeyBase (Unix)
- 14552 Norsborg E-Mail: d89-rbi@nada.kth.se - Please, be happy! -
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