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This subjec seems to be currenttly descussed in both comp.sys.amiga and
comp.sys.amiga.tech.
This is the article I subbmitted to comp.sys.amiga.tech.
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>Mutitasking is not a problem for the games writer. There is nothing wrong
>with Exec. The problem is mulitittasking with intuition. Lets face it
>intuition is a load of rubbish. I can't stand useing any proggrams that make
>extensive use of it. I reffuse to use DMCS because of this. In DMCS it is
>that it takes too long to go about refreshing all the distturbed windows.
>It window handeling is far from perfect. Even if you don't use windows it
>is still not ideal. Did you know that if you leave the screen in front pulled
>down, ( And I don't just meen pulling a window down. ) the whole maching
>slows down to a snails pace. You may not notice this if you are not useing
>much of the cycles before hand. Finally it is too dificult to manipulate the
>display if you are restricted to useing intuition screens.
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>- CirsP.

I was pushed for time.
You all seem to complain that you have to reboot your machines. Some of you
say that it takes too long. What do you have in your startups. Personaly I
have as little as possible. I want to turn my machine on and go imidiatly.

And about Hard Disks. Take a decent game. It comes on two disks. If the
programmer was clever he could have put about 3 megs on that. It should be
possible for a writer to supply a third disk to install this onto Hard Disk.
as a coninous file. allong with the nessassery pattches to make it use DOS
to read it. This copy, alough in DOS format, would not make the game pirated
any more than if it did not come wih the third disk. As most pirates do not
have Hard Drives. And will find it easier to hack the protected copy than
raise the money tto buy a Hard Drive.
  This is just a sugesttion to the writters. I think the exra work will pay
off. Especialy if they make it so that the patched version will exit back to
he OS. This should be exeptable to all as the patched version only need to
work wih exra memory.

Its all very well saying I don't want to use proggies that don't multitask.
When I get down to writing a proggie I don't want to have to use intuition.
I could write an intuition replacement that will allow cli's and custom
displays generatted buy custom copper lists. But who'd use it. There are
thoes who like there workbench. How about a screen manipulator that would
allow the intuition's display as one of its elemens. Would NEone use it.
Would you games programmers allow for its use? If there is a demand for it
I'll write it.

- CrisP.