From: mctaylor@mta.ca ("Michael C. Taylor")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Going to the metal
Date: 23 Jan 93 22:40:57 GMT
Reply-To: mctaylor@mta.ca
Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada

In article <Jesse_Michael.02zm@matrix.rain.com>, Jesse_Michael@matrix.rain.com (Jesse Michael) writes:
>In a message dated Thu 21 Jan 93 23:55, Mctaylor@mta.ca ("michael C. Taylor
>wrote:
>
> MCT> been better, had it work. (:-)) Hardware-bashing only works for
[stuff deleted about $dff180, knowledgible]
> MCT>  Commodore has promised that if you follow their standards, your
> MCT> game or
> MCT> whatever will work on my new A10000 and I'll buy a copy, and you'll
> MCT> see more
> MCT> profits. Now do you see why many people complain about hardware-
> MCT> bashing? It
> MCT> hurts them in either making a smaller market to try and hit with
> MCT> their program
> MCT> that _will_ run on my new A10000 or they can't buy that new
> MCT> "Lemmings Fly In
> MCT> Wing Commander VII" because it won't run on anything other than the
> MCT> one config
> MCT> on the box (A9999 w/ 1M of DoOp RAM availible from FlyByNite Inc.
> MCT> and a
> MCT> PaddlePusher joystick with a crack in it and the hack shown inside
> MCT> the box
> MCT> and add silliness )
> MCT>   Hope you never try to sell me a program that uses that sort of
> MCT> coding, it
> MCT> just may not be safe. 
> MCT>   Remember Amiga fans practice safe programming when playing with
> MCT> your amiga.
>
>It's a problem of catering to the largest market (1 meg A500), and making
>the game the best it can be with those requirements.
>
>If they didn't use "hardware-bashing" and went strictly through the OS,
>then very few people would buy the game because it would be unplayable on
>the system that the largest part of the market owns.
>
>-Jesse
  Well I just read a review of Wing Commander (Amiga version ) and it seems
nice enough on a stock amiga. Works, it is preferible to have a 14MHZ 68000,
but then again, if you were running MS-DOS you would need at least 12MHZ 286
and that feels sluggish. So buy an A1200...Then tell me that $1ff680 or
whatever that super-easy to remember address was still works. (Forgot to write
it on the back of my hand, is that what you do?) It uses enough of the OS to
be hard drive installable, works on 68030 and maybe the A4000, the review
posted to c.s.a.reviews didn't test it on one. Too bad the sticker didn't say
on the cover. 
  To the person who wanted names of programs which didn't work with newer
machines, I lost The Works!, Platium Edition when I upgraded my 500 to WB2.04,
and the Immortal doesn't work on higher than 68000, worked with KS2.04 mind
you, I tried it. At least that made it clear on the box that it doesn't work
with accelators. The original verion of DigiPaint 3 didn't like WB2.04, but
they released a bug fix I guess, they never contacted me though. :-( That's
over $200 at list price of software that didn't work for me between WB2.04 and
my A3000.
  Remember to support SafeHex when engaging with your Amiga. :)

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Michael C. Taylor  Internet: MCTaylor@MtA.ca  phone: (506) 364-9819
Box M-14 Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB, E0A 3C0, Canada
Amiga 3000/25MHZ/100MB/5MB/KS 2.04 ROM/WB 2.05  A1960/A3070/A225/A2065
Exec - What an OS was meant to be.  MS-DOS - what your 64 should of used. :-)