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Re: So what does this mean to us ?

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From: Neil Forsyth
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.

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