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Re: [MiNT] Re[3]: usage of wind_calc()
Give me a good reason why a user still wanting to use new applications created in 2005, would deliberately want to use mint 1.1x?
This does not make any sense.
Furthermore, If an application written in 1990 followed the atari GEM/AES/VDI standard as documented, XAAES, with no matter what changes and addition should still be able to run that application.
If new applications decide to take advantage of the new features offered by Xaaes, by ALL means, it should be done and encouraged.
I have given up coding for GEM due to its idiocyncractic implementation and overly cumbersome usage. Anything to help the developer to only concentrate on the main task will be a blessing, as opposed to always thinking about, Oh, what about magic? how am i gonna do that? what if the user is in 320x200? what if, what if. At the end, your code is 50% of bullshit just to compensate for other OS that are just not up to task.
Ever wonder why so many projects get started and never get finished on Atari?
The only AES that's still being developed is XAAES, all the others have kicked the bucket, so let's not worry about them. XAAES is the only thing you can hang on to, let's make sure, it is pleasurable to developers and in turn users.
With an AES fitted to what's needed as of today, to match the current platforms we have, to have good documentation and new good aes calls, will make developers much more efficients, and with faster development turn around, users will then benefit.
I'll tell you what asinine is; a user demanding to run the latest applications (2005) on his 1985 hardware with an unsupported, not developed OS (magic 6.x, mint 1.1x)
Zorro <zorro270@yahoo.fr> wrote:
Of course, we can't keep compatibility with very old OS but to support
MagiC 6.x and Mint 1.1x is the minimum because the majority of Atarians
use these OS.
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