Date   : Mon, 06 Dec 1999 11:30:47 +0000 (GMT)
From   : "Dr. David Gilbert" <gilbertd@...>
Subject: Re: Next BBC Master question...

On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Faraz Choudhry wrote:

> 
> At least I know now what extra stuff to get when purchasing a Master!
> I expect that Acornsoft, Superior and Blue Ribbon adhered to Acorn
> programming guidelines.  You'll see that Chris Richardson also expects
> all submissions to adhere to them guidelines too.  Software houses are
> stupid not to do so.  Many of them were the ones who went bust in the
> early 90's because no one liked the fact that no available software
> wouldn't run properly on higher spec 8-bit machines.  Then again that's

I'm sorry but this just isn't the case.  When they were squeezing games
into Model B's in the early 80s they didn't have the performance or memory
to do everything through the OS or according to the specs.

It is a fine view to take now where we have tons of processing power and
RAM but the reality of the 1980's meant that they had to access hardware
directly.

Dave
 
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