CompuServe Messages

<<The reason I think I should make it only AGA is because of the graphic possibilities. It is sad to say, but making an A500 game today, even with a HD, is (sniff) obsolete. The fact is that with those crappy-bugged Pentium PC's you have 256-color games. The Amiga computers can deal with lots of bobs, high-quality musics, but only the AGA allows 256 colors. There's more: most of A1200 users have HD, because it's ALMOST necessary. Then Escom's going to include HD with every A1200.>> Making a game require AGA is OK but if you don't hit the hardware directly it should also run on an A4000 and any other machine that has OS3.1 and a graphics card (most cards that is not all). This would mean people like me (when I upgrade to OS3.1) would be able to play the game. A down side to this is that you can (if you know what you are doing) make a game run faster if you hit the hardware, but if the hardware is ever changed (it is over due for an upgrade) it more than likely will not work on the new machines. Just look at how many good games for the A500 will not run on anything else. It can be very frustrating when you upgrade your machine I know. Stew