Hyperion and Metropolis announce AmigaOS 4 version of Gorky 17

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Which way would you say I'm biased? I'd probably be surprise by your answer.
Oh, your account. Don't worry about it.

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Somebody "Won" the "War"? When was this? I though it was still going on. Oh, and the ending will really surprise everyone. :-D

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Yup, that's Moderation. Damed if you do, Damned if you don't.

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Huh?

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Oh, it'll go out with a bang!
But not on a good note, as will be noted by the missing man formation. :-x

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They were moderated. They feel jipped on their air time on the soapbox. Everyone else is just curious. Sort of like looking at an auto accident as you drive by.

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Oh, this is so your fault. Your site, your design, your servers, you made me an admin. Yup, your to blame for everything. :-P

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Why couldn't you have been this verbose in your first post? We really should have a 50 word minium for posts. Oh, well, too late for that now.

I do have one question though. Was it Hyperion that was contracted to do the port or was it that Epic contracted a Hyperion employee, independant of Hyperion, to do the port?

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Well, I have to sleep at some point and well, there really isn't much of a point in moderating the rest of the post at this point since we're headed for the big moderation. Uh, you'll understand in a few days. Unless a miricle happens.

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So the port was done outside of his employment at Hyperion? So, your saying that this guy that did the Mac port is not a very good programmer?
Not trying to slam Hyperion. I just want to know the circumstances of the whole things as it would help clarify things and hopefully shut some people up.

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because they dont' have it. If it's Amiga they want it. It's okay for Morphos to have exclusive games/programs but not for Amiga OS 4.0. Screwy, ain't it.

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Ask Santa, He knows who's been naughty and he knows who's been nice. He checks his list twice just for accuracy.  :-D

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Just wanted to get my yearly post count up before the end. :-D

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Sorry, just had the urge to get in the last word.

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Hooligan:
  I might, then again you could just try the nested view.

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falemagn:
You mean this?

Sent: 2003/12/30 10:15:18  
Gorky Thread

Hi!

Comment to your post on that Gorky thread: The points a certain review criticized about the Gorky port where not noticed by the QA at e.p.i.c interactive. They were not noticed by the QA done by the manufacturers of the Windows version. I would still have done a bugfix (actually I did two minor bugfix) after I was notified about it if e.p.i.c would not have stopped paying me.

QA was not done by me. The contract clearly specified this as e.p.i.cs job. Neither was Betatesting done by me. This was also specified as e.p.i.cs job.

I cannot work for free.

If you want to judge how good a coder I am have a look at my Quake 2 port. I have to admit I am really p*ssed off by such remarks. You have also to see that the original source-code of Gorky 17 was in a shape I would "normally" describe as "unportable". It is the least portable game source I ever saw, with the only exception of Alien vs. Predator of course. And Avs.P would have been much more portable even, if it would not have had a D3D Renderer

Actually the contract for the Mac G17-version only happened as I (personally, not Hyperion) was in pretty bad financial shape when that offer for the Mac-port came. If I would have known about the way e.p.i.c pays (or pays not ) their bills I probably wouldn't have done it.

If you feel any need for further comment, please tell them by email to SteffenH@hyperion-entertainment.com. I have no interest in flame wars on a public forum.

Have a nice day.

Steffen

Took awhile but we're getting down to the facts.