🚀 go-pugleaf

>>** FLAME ON **
>>OK, buddy, you tell us what you want in here.  Lessee, if we eliminate
>>VGA cards...eliminated...IRQs...eliminated...DMA...eliminiated...
>>there would be no games as they exist today!!!
> 
> Games are not dependant on VGA cards, interrupt requests (IRQs), or
> direct-memory transfers (DMAs) any more than they are dependant on
> the type of machine code the hardware uses.

Did I say they were?

> Well, on the apple II series, all that was required was to read or write
> to memory location $C030 at specific time intervals, and for my NeXT, all
> I have to do is use the built-in sound and music libraries.

No comment as on the Amiga and Commodore 64, you do the same thing.  You
also do the same thing with the sound cards available for the IBM.

> Yes, but let's make sure that we are learning game programming theory and
> not the difference between modey vs 13h!

Yes, we are learning game programming theory and not, mind you, design
theory.  That is handled in rec.games.design.  What do you class programming
theory as?

> LONG listing of inappropriate postings made just in the last week follows.
> ~95 out of ~180 messages.  That's about 50 percent.
> It was also interesting to note that Josh started some of these threads.

If that was a hint to leave, then I'll pack my bags and LEAVE.

Out of your list of messages, I started the ModeY vs 13h thread.  The original
intent was to determine which was to be better used for specific purposes
( as in a game I was designing with bi-directional scrolling...check the
original post ).

I started the Questions thread.  I asked about the design behind Ultima 7
and Soundblaster programming.  The SB programming was never answered, but
we did learn what people thought of design behind U7.

Dave 'n' Josh was another big one, but I didn't start it.

I posted the Cronologia Demo message asking how it was done.

Yes, Josh started 2 threads in your list of messages.  I think I'll stab
myself right now for doing so.  If all the whiners and complainers in
this world would keep to themselves, the whole world would be a better
place.

Josh