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- Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!gatech!psuvax1!psuvm!dxb132
- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:46:36 EST
- From: <DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <92323.034636DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: AMOS (was: Programming)
- Distribution: world
- References: <mwm.2ndl@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us>
- <92321.092123DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu> <mwm.2olh@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us>
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- In article <mwm.2olh@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us>, mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us
- (Mike Meyer) says:
-
- >In <92321.092123DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu>, <DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu> wrote:
- >> In article <mwm.2nuv@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us>, mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us
- >> (Mike Meyer) says:
- >>
- >Sigh. Ok, you who know so much - when is the new hardware manual
- >coming out? And why are the folks at commodore.com so busy defending
- >not releasing them?
-
- Most likely the folks at C= know more about future chip development
- than we do. It seems to me that AA was more of a "quick fix" than
- a long-term solution, and if that's the case, there's little point in
- documenting it (although the alternative OS crowd is a bit peeved).
-
- >> By the way, WHAT "serious" applications do you use your Amiga for?
-
- >I guess you've given up on defending AMOS (wise move on your part),
- >and are now switching to personal attacks. Oh well; that's part of the
- >fun.
-
- It wouldn't be so darn temping if your commentary wasn't so caustic.
-
- >What's this have to do with anything? I can't recognize misbehaving
- >programs unless I've written programs? Or maybe it's that you don't
- >think anyone should be allowed to criticise ill-behaved programs
- >unless they've written something?
-
- Not at all.
-
- >> You must consider yourself an expert, since you are so quick
- >> to criticise everyone.
-
- >No; I only criticise packages that are misbehaved and idiots like you.
- >Fortunately, the latter category is very small.
-
- And langauges ('C'=giggle) and other things I've forgotten. I guess the
- reason I asked was that you seemed (at times) to take on an air of
- superiority. It is logical to ask therefore whether you are indeed
- superior. :-)
-
- >> Why? Because Intuition does not support AMOS. Have you noticed that ALL
- >> the good Amiga games take over the display?
-
- >No, I haven't noticed that at all. What I've noticed is that most of
- >the ones that don't work properly took over the display. Of course, I
- True.
- >don't consider pretty pictures and fast-moving objects to be the sole
- >judge of game quality; things like playability are also important. The
- >best games rank high on playability; almost none of them take over the
- >display. Most of the ones that do probably had a good reason to.
-
- Well, clearly you don't define "best games" by "most popular". I hope
- you don't mean "the games I like" when you say "best games"...that would
- be a bit dishonest.
-
- >> Enough ranting for now...
-
- >Oh well, at least you know what you're doing.
-
- Yes I do. Do you? ;-)
-
-