Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!bellcore!texbell!killer!elg From: elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Software Development And Piracy (somewhat lengthy and hot stuff) Message-ID: <6362@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Date: 9 Dec 88 03:35:09 GMT References: <1034@hub.ucsb.edu> Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas Lines: 33 in article <1034@hub.ucsb.edu>, hbo@sbphy.ucsb.edu (Howard B. Owen) says: > In article <5866@louie.udel.EDU>, BRENNER_%DULRUU51.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes... >>GET YOUR FIRE EXTINGUISHERS READY - QUICK! >> >> (Long and interesting message advocating taking over the machine at >>a low level in order to optimize execution for shoot-em-up games deleted) > > This message underlines the dilemma Commodore faces in trying to crack > the business and education markets. Folks that value fast scrolling and smooth > animation over multitasking and hard disks make up a large proportion of > the market for the Amiga 500. One thing I like about the Amiga operating system is that you can go straight to the hardware if you want, WITHOUT blowing it out of the water -- just open a custom screen, and play with it anyway you like. I'm using an ancient Amiga 1000 with 2 floppies (but do have 2 megs of RAM), so I'm hardly in the "wealthy professional with $6,000 in hardware" class... but I STILL appreciate multitasking games, for one reason: telecommunications. While I'm doing a file transfer, or my PC Pursuit script is chugging away trying to make it into Dallas and call my favorite BBS's, I can be playing Nethack or otherwise keeping myself busy. As contrasted to my C-64 days, when I'd sit here thumping on the edge of the keyboard waiting for the #$%@#$% thing to finish.... BTW, how old is that 1000? "Look, Ma, no halfbright!" -- Eric Lee Green ..!{ames,decwrl,mit-eddie,osu-cis}!killer!elg Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191 Lafayette, LA 70509 "We have treatments for disturbed persons, Nicholas. But, at least for the moment, we have no treatment for disturbing persons." -- Dr. Island