Re: Pleasantly Surprised By Defender of the Crown (IIgs)

["Don" <coach41@pacbell.net>]

heuser.marcus@freenet.de wrote:
> > Put another way, the documentation required to fully understand and
> > program the IIgs weighs more than the computer, unlike the //e.  ;-)
>
> This is probably true to any computer more complex than the common 6502
> or Z80-based machines of the day (the custom chip equipped Atari and
> C64 included).
>
> I still have the original Amiga documentation (two or three thousand
> pages) - lots of white space and hundreds of functions one never used
> anyway ;o)
>
> bye
> Marcus

The IIGS was introduced with these limitations:

Slow Speed
Not enough Memory
No dedicated graphic hardware

If we were to go back in time and re-introduce the IIGS, what ONE of
the three items would have been the most helpful for programmers to
give the IIGS better games?  My guess is that having some dedicated
graphic hardware would have been the best idea as the IIGS was just
slow and didn't have memory to accomplish things that people wanted.

Don