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- From: podesta@qut.edu.au
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: New hardware reference guide?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.085943.58457@qut.edu.au>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 13:59:43 GMT
- References: <Bx7782.CKD@kingston.ac.uk> <1992Nov5.184916.17436@sth.frontec.se> <1992Nov10.135706.383@ugle.unit.no> <alien.00ze@acheron.amigans.gen.nz>
- Organization: Queensland University of Technology
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- In article <alien.00ze@acheron.amigans.gen.nz>, alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith) writes:
- >
- > You've missed his point! The whole point of using the OS instead of hitting
- > the metal is so that you can write a program that runs on every Amiga
- > *without* having them all there to test it on! A demo-writer who writes
- > something that only works on the particular machine(s) they have is guilty
- > of exactly the sort of thing C='s "no more hardware docs" policy is intended
- > to prevent.
- >
-
- YOU CAN'T WRITE A REAL DEMO USING THE O/S
- If the O/S can do it, it's not worth putting in a demo :)
-
- > I think C= have got this one right. Don't let the programmers access
- > machine-specific hardware, and we won't have anywhere near as much
- > frustration with programs that don't work on new machines.
-
- We will, however, have a lot of frustration because the entire demo scene
- will be dead. Wheres the fun in owning an Amiga if you can't play with the
- hardware??? Fine for power-users who like ray-tracers and system utilities,
- but pretty suckful for us low-end demo/game writers who love to get a
- new copper list demo, or conquer another blitter technique.
-
- One thing the Amiga ALWAYS had over the IBLames is that it is a fun machine
- whereas the IBLame is a cheap fast but boring machine.
-
- > ....... Ross Smith (Wanganui, NZ) ...... alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz ......
-
- James (Brisbane, Australia)
-