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Re: Game vs Multitasking

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 1990 11:41
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In article <568@lily.warwick.ac.uk> cstxqbt@warwick.ac.uk (CrisP of Truth and Justice) writes:
> 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.

I don't want to reboot my machine because it's NOT a Commodore-64. If I wanted
a game machine I could have got one a hell of a lot cheaper than the nearly
2 grand I paid for my original A1000 with options. I don't want to reboot
because I may have work in progress at the time I start the game up. I am
willing to deal with a game that kills multitasking while it's running, but
it should leave allocated memory alone. If it can't run with what I give it,
it should say so.

Hackercorp's own game, Tracers, multitasks just fine. I really don't see why
anyone else should find it impossible to at least return to multitasking when
it's done.
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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Game vs Multitasking
Message-ID: <5789@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 6 Jun 90 11:41:49 GMT
References: <MT87692.90May29030535@uikku.tut.fi> <136367@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <568@lily.warwick.ac.uk>
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