xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) (04/04/91)
Yep, that's right campers, the (now seven) threads following up Mike Farren's comp.sys.amiga.games postings have now passed three quarters of a megabyte in over 200 followup articles in comp.sys.amiga.programmer, and I haven't even caught up with today's dreck. Of that perhaps 20 Kbytes is information useful to programmers; the rest is sheerest chest puffing and macho marching. Get it the hell out of here. This is _exactly_ the kind of garbage .advocacy was designed to sidetrack. .programmer is now the biggest c.s.a group, and this kind of mindless drivel is not improving matters a bit. And before the newbies flame back "who died and willed you the godhead", ask around. I've got it by rights. And on another note (see and respect the damned followups line!!!!) farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren) writes: > mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes: >> Most Amiga owners are *NOT* programmers, nor do they want to be. The >> Amiga is popular MOSTLY among game players, followed by desktop video >> users. > Yes, that is true. But if you offer them products which FORCE them to > remain only game players, then game players is all that they will ever > be. Nintendo owners will never make good programmers. I'd like to emphasize this point. Releasing "take over the system" games _hurts_ the Amiga hardware and software market; if the game you bought won't multitask, what's the use of buying more memory so that you can have room to multitask more things? If your life, like mine, is a series of BBS downloads and file reading, what use a game that won't interact well with a download? If you're a games-only person, why buy a harddisk or extended memory if the games you buy can't make use of them? The sword of nuking the system cuts both ways; nuke the system because the machines in the market have too little memory, and you guarantee that they stay that way, because you have given them no reason to upgrade. Somebody has to blink; to make sure it is the game writers, users need to stop buying the games that don't "fit" the Amiga -- hardware and OS, we bought it for both; they can damn well support both if they're such hotshot programmers. Pathetic that the game writers are themselves the biggest cause of the underpowered, unexpanded systems they howl about so loudly. /// It's Amiga /// for me: why Kent, the man from xanth. \\\/// settle for <xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us> \XX/ anything less? -- Convener, COMPLETED comp.sys.amiga grand reorganization.