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- From: jbrown@lonestar.utsa.edu (Justin W. Brown)
- Subject: Re: Phenomena egos??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.214413.10029@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:44:13 GMT
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- In article <1dj1sqINNetk@gap.caltech.edu> keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) writes:
- >mjbrown@lonestar.utsa.edu (Marc J. Brown) writes:
- >
- >That's because so little has changed... besides, somehow I doubt that
- >the demos (which emply many hardware tricks) will work so well on the
- >A4000. Many of them won't even run on my 3000...
-
- Heheh! Remember, demos are that special case where you literally need
- 100% downward-compatibility... Which is why I personally can't justify
- the purchase of anything other than the A500 (or A1200 once that becomes
- popular enough) unless you already have one.
-
- >dream up and create those things. They are very impressive. However,
- >the knowledge is very specialized and is thus limited. As soon as the
- >particular platform is out-of-date, you have to learn so much new stuff.
-
- Not so. The process of learning how to do this & that can be useful
- in the form of generic learning skills. For example... I've become pretty
- adept at ProTracker. Someone asked me to port a MED mod to PT format
- (because MED always makes a corrupt file when he saves as PT-MOD), so
- I had to quickly learn everything about MED (everything that counted :).
- After getting used to the labyrinth interface a little, it was a snap.
- If I had never used PT before, I would simply have said "forget it!" :)
-
- -Maruku of Megawatts
- jbrown@spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu (E-mail that address, not THIS one)
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