Porting software from pc.

[Im>bE]

I see that some are discussing
what software they would like to see ported
from pc to Amiga.

But THE ONLY prog WORTH porting
is Elasto mania.

Elasto mania is a game with high playability
and that is ALL that matters in a game.
In my view it is the BEST game on pc,
because it has variability playability
lastability addictability incredibability
and most importantly it has no meaningless
body parts exploding or an awesome intro anim
much better than the game itself.


Ignore all those other progs.
ELASTO MANIA IS THE ONLY ONE -WORTH- PORTING.


Hell, when I think of it
we don't need to port anything,
just develop from scratch instead!
Better that, than to lose all speed by porting.


While I am at it;
WHY ASSIMILATE PROGS FROM WINDOWS!???

just develop creative stuff with your own brains!!

[iamaboringperson]

 :-?
i dont know what game you are talking about
(got a screen shot?)

but do you have any programing ability?
DO IT YER SELF

and let others port what ever the hell they wish

[Im>bE]

I don't have a screenshot,
neither do I actually play the game regularly.


I do make games on amiga 68k,
and try to be creative about it,
and in constant search for more playability.


simple porting will make a prog very slow
compared to on its original platform.
there are several examples of pc games ported to amiga that are slow for no apparent reason,
thus lame unoptimized code is only getting it to work, and then it can be sold.

[YttriumOx]

lm>be wrote:
But THE ONLY prog WORTH porting
is Elasto mania.

Elasto mania is a game...........

And for those of us who don't play games at all (except NetHack, and I MUD a little), that's totally worthless.

While I am at it;
WHY ASSIMILATE PROGS FROM WINDOWS!???

I agree, it's not ideal, but it's a hell of a lot faster than writing software from scratch.  What we need is people to work on writing software from scratch, but other people to port things in the meantime so we do have SOME software of professional quality that isn't over 5 years old.

Regards,
Ben de Waal
Yttrium Oxide

[KennyR]

WHY ASSIMILATE PROGS FROM WINDOWS!???

just develop creative stuff with your own brains!!

Brains were never the problem. Time, money, skills, and man-hours are the problem. One part time coder just can't do what 60 professional ones do, and that's a sad fact.

[Im>bE]

>that's a sad fact.

nothing is a fact.


ie:
60 low moraled pushed sick workers
getting headaches from using Windows,
may not be able to achieve
what 1 happy tripping high moraled
Workbench user can.


I agree with the time stuff.

When done at a fulltime day of work,
it may not be so easy to start developing.

[B00tDisk]

Im>bE wrote:

While I am at it;
WHY ASSIMILATE PROGS FROM WINDOWS!???

Yeah, this bunker mentaility sure will help the Amiga get ahead, just like it's helped it all along. :roll:

Thank god people like you aren't in charge of trying to get the Amiga at least back to the "niche" status again.  The fact of the matter is, cross-pollination is a good thing, whether you want it or not.  Not everyone thinks 126kb games on trackloading floppies that run on .5mb PAL A500's are the be-all-end-all of computer games.  Quite frankly I'd rather play Morrowind than a dozen ugly little 32 color side-scrolling platformers.

However, it'd be nice to play it on the Amiga OS so I could have the flexibility provided by AOS instead of Windows - providing of course the other programs and apps I use on Windows are available on AOS.

Cut the Amiga off from the rest of the computing world and it'll die again.

[KennyR]

>that's a sad fact.

nothing is a fact.

Just because the truth is ugly is no reason to deny it. If you want to do that, amigaworld is waiting for you. ;-)

60 low moraled pushed sick workers
getting headaches from using Windows,
may not be able to achieve
what 1 happy tripping high moraled
Workbench user can.

Um, what? They do it all the time. Even budget label PC games are better than full price home-grown Amiga ones.