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- From: breese@monet.imada.ou.dk (Bjoern Reese)
- Subject: Re: New hardware reference guide?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.140544.28847@imada.ou.dk>
- Sender: news@imada.ou.dk (USENET News System)
- Organization: Dept. of Math. & Computer Science, Odense University, Denmark
- References: <1992Nov18.134641.58767@qut.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:05:44 GMT
- Lines: 46
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- In article <1992Nov18.134641.58767@qut.edu.au> podesta@qut.edu.au writes:
- > In article <OAHVENLA.92Nov17002933@lk-hp-4.hut.fi>, oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi
- (Osma Ahvenlampi) writes:
- > > C= won't release the Hardware information, because
- > > that would mean saying that it's OK to directly access hardware, when it's
- >
- > I don't get it. What's the big deal????
- > Why don't Commodore just release it and say something like:
- >
- > "BANGING THE HARDWARE IS NOT UPWARDLY COMPATIBLE"
- >
- > Then all of us who don't give a damn about upward compatibility
- > (ie. in demos and some games) can write our demos and have fun, and
- > those who want to write software that will last forever can go through
- > the OS.
-
- That is EXACTLY how I feel too. The demo won't run on a new chipset, but
- so what? I don't care. There's no, or little, money in doing demos. We're
- doing demos for the fun of it.
-
- You people with the big machines actually have an option: Don't watch
- demos!!! If you're so afraid that demos will crash your machine or
- that it may harm your hardware, don't watch demos! If C= doesn't
- release the hardware specs, I can ensure you that it doesn't mean
- that democoders will start producing OS-demos; more likely they will
- leave the Amiga world.
-
- Why can't you let us write our demos and have the fun what we want?
-
- > I mean the OS is GREAT. I love it. It's one of the reasons that Amiga rules..
- > but its a development environment, not a demo or game environment.
-
- I agree again. The OS is GREAT, and I can understand that the software
- engineers at C= aren't feeling too happy about people like me, when I
- stuff the OS, which they have been working hard at for several years. But
- I think that every programmer should be given to freedom to do as he/she
- likes, based on guidelines from C=. If we don't care about upwards
- compatibility, it's our problem (we probably never intended these
- programs to run on a future machine; we made them to show what the
- current machine can do, and remember: we never got any money for our
- efforts!!)
-
- --
-
- Bjoern Reese | Email: breese@imada.ou.dk
- Odense University, Denmark | Voice: +45 65 932 182 (private)
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