Re: [MiNT] Re[3]: usage of wind_calc()

[Maurits van de Kamp <maurits@bassment.nu>]

> Scratching off 50% of all possible users by not supporting MagiC in your
> application is something you'd try to avoid.

50% of Atari users are going to stick to a dead operating system like MagiC as 
long as no one dares to create/use any new OS features, but this would make 
any development in MiNT or XaAES essentially useless (apart from bugfixes). 
However, don't forget this "50% of atari users" amounts to a rapidly 
decreasing absolute number, since for lack of any progress 99% of original 
Magic OR MiNT users have abandoned the Atari as a usable system totally by 
now. This has been promoted for years by the fear of making anything new.

Let's be real about two things: 1 Someone who uses an OS that hasn't been 
developed for what, 7 years? is not going to be worried about the fact that 
the 2005 version of some application (if he ever expects there to BE one) 
won't run on his system and if he is, it's a nice wakeup call. And 2, someone 
who writes Atari software now is not doing it to reach a large number of 
users, surely?

Maurits.