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Article #20006Re: So what does this mean to us ?
From: Neil Forsyth
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:49
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:49
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In article <greg.724971572@duke> greg@Quotron.COM (Greg "Maddog" Knauss) writes: >... Better? I dunno. I've never seen anybody else's routines. But Dave >and Neil's stuff was (and, heck, I hope is) going to be publicly available. >The Bitmap Brothers, I would expect, have a great graphics engine, but it >doesn't do me a lick of good if they won't sell it to me. By using Game >Workbench, I got to do all the spiffy stuff the BB and Jeff Minter do, but >without the pain of writing my own library. If that's a way to be better, >then they're better. > (And as a side note, GW is an excellently designed system, >independant of how it runs [but, heh, that's excellent, too]. The calls >are well organized and logically laid out. Similar commands have >similar names and take similar paramaters, overcoming one of the biggest >pitfalls of C -- how to find something in the manual and figuring out >what it does.) <BLUSH> Aw gee thanks Greg. I hope many more people will be as impressed with and enjoy Game Workbench too when it comes out. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ! DISCLAIMER:Unless otherwise stated, the above comments are entirely my own ! ! Neil Forsyth ! ! Department of Computing and Electrical Engineering ! ! Heriot-Watt University ! ! Edinburgh, Scotland ! ! United Kingdom Email: neil@uk.ac.hw.cs, ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!neil ! ! "'Have you got any?' he asked, expecting the answer no" - Monty Python ! +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!bnr.co.uk!uknet!edcastle!hwcs!neil From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: So what does this mean to us ? Message-ID: <1992Dec22.104925.23469@cs.hw.ac.uk> Date: 22 Dec 92 10:49:25 GMT References: <72071@cup.portal.com> <JZR5VB3w165w@comtch.spk.wa.us> <greg.724971572@duke> Sender: news@cs.hw.ac.uk (News Administrator) Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland Lines: 27