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- From: csg019@cch.coventry.ac.uk (-~=Zaphod=~-)
- Subject: Re: Attn Commodore: You are making a Big Mistake (Hardware
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- References: <Bxv4wG.Lsx@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <paulk.29lk@terapin.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:01:33 GMT
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- In article <paulk.29lk@terapin.com> paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz) writes:
- >> I will definately but a FALCON if CBM do this.
- >
- >Looks like Atari has found its proper market niche.
- >
- >The thing about demo writers is, if you all desert the Amiga, the
- >rest of us are no worse off. In the end, you simply DON'T MATTER.
- >
- >Application writers matter. And the biggest problem in upgrades is
- >apps that follow the rules 96% of the time and do just a few weird
- >illegal things because they could get away with it at the time.
-
- I think you are completely and utterly wrong there.
-
- In the UK and Europe, games built the amiga, *not* applications. Ask most
- people in Europe why that bought an amiga and i bet most of them say
- "For the games." i bought mine for the games and the demo scene.
- I think in the USA the amiga might be taken a bit more seriously due to the
- fact that the americans tend to own higher spec machines.
-
- The fact is, if you try to write technically taxing games or demos using the
- OS routines to run on a 68000 amiga they will be unplayable. And you *WILL*
- be able to write the game to a better standard by hitting the hardware
- correctly, and still run it on an A9000 with 100 tetrabytes of RAM.
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