¶N€þ02LAME CODEþ01 ¢02Written By:¢03 John Hertell. ¢02This text is written to all those ¢03CODERS¢02 in the scene (and outside the scene aswell but¢03 MAINLY¢02 to the scene) I have been active on the Amiga scene since 1987, by then coders made good demos and some good useful utils. They all worked on that times computers. But today when ¢03TRADERS¢02 rules the scene (that SUX) Coders have forgotten to code. Demos just works on ¢03 STANDARD A500/A1200¢02, they ¢03OFTEN¢02 crashes when you have anything extra attached to it like 030/040 accelerators etc. not even utilities works good. We can take some examples of extremely BAD coding in utilities: ¢15 Protracker¢02 The ¢03GUI¢02 is re-written ¢03SEVERAL¢02 times still the ¢03 LAME¢02 coders are using a own screen bumping on the hardware ¢01 *LAAAME*¢02 making that it will NOT work on all computers. Some ¢03A1200/4000¢02 owners can't SEE anything as their monitor will not cope with the 15KHz signal. ¢15 AsmOne ¢02 They just shoots of ¢03 LOADS of ENFORCER ¢02 hits. The ¢03EDITOR¢02 Trash'em One is bumping right on the hardware so it will ¢03CRASH¢02 with a ¢03GFX¢02 card, still (in trashem) you can choose a GFX-card screen in the screenmode requester, a screen ¢02appears¢02 but ¢03 NO TEXT! ¢02 if you hit the keyboard the computer till crash after a while. and it have been ¢03 MANY ¢02 versions out ALL with the same problems. Isnt the ¢02 LAME¢03 dudes who does this using a simple thing as ¢01 ENFORCER/MUNGWALL¢02 while coding? ¢15 DPaint¢02 Ok not from the scene, this ¢03 CRAP ¢02also hits directly on the hardware. ¢03GFX ¢02cards will crash after a while. ¢15 AmiExpress ¢02 Seems to be¢03 VERY¢02 poorly betatested, its so easy to crash the program from the sysop side, especially when using the ¢03 TRAPDOOR¢02 mode. I can continue for a while telling about utilities we use¢03 OFTEN ¢02 that simply won't work good if you got some extra equipment. WHY is it like this? I'm most bugged about ASM-1, Trash'em-1 as I'm a coder and like that concept. (I doesn't like the DEVPAC method) Doesnt the codes on the Elite scene BETA-TEST their stuff? It seems that everyone want's to get their stuff out as fast as possible, no matter if it works or not. Now ¢03DEMOS¢02. This is actually even WORSE. I got the stuff released from the Assembly party. ¢03 NONE¢02 of the stuff worked when I had the ¢03GFX¢02 card initilized. I rebooted my computer and started the stuff from a normal flickering ¢03PAL¢02 50Hz screen. Now I managed to start ¢03TWO¢02 intros from this party. ¢03FUCK¢02 what is this? And I doesn't have any ¢03STRANGE¢02 eqipment just an A3000, 040 and Piccolo ¢03 GFX¢02 card. still nearly NO "Elite-produced" software will run on this system. Elite guys it's ¢03TIME¢02 for you to start ¢03 LEARN ¢02 how to code¢03 SYSTEMFRIENDLY ¢02it is ¢03NOT¢02 lame to use libraries etc. Its ¢03 LAME¢02 to make software that doesn't work on all systems and hitting on the hardware will ¢03NOT¢02 work on all systems. And ¢03 BETA-TEST¢02 your stuff. Let some persons with ¢03DIFFERENT¢02 equipment test your product for some time so they can report all bugs. and ¢03OFCAUZE¢02 use ¢03 ENFORCER¢02 and¢03 MUNGWALL¢02 (if you doesn't have an ¢03 MMU¢02, well too bad get one!) (that's one of the reasons why A4000/030 ¢03 SUX¢02 and I didn't buy one) If you need betatesters I gladly betatest some software and knows many who does it for you. the ATB-beta test crew who have betatested software like ¢03 TRAPDOOR¢02, ¢03 SPOT¢02, ¢03LHA¢02, ¢03 NCOMM¢02 etc. Just contact me for information. (ok ¢03 DEMOS¢02 can't be done via the ¢03OS¢02 but do it ¢03 RIGHT¢02. Tell the system that you¢03 ARE¢02 taking over) ¢01 If you got any comments on this feel free to contact me on the following ways: ¢03 E-Mail:¢02 Chucky@Spray.ct.se ¢03 Fido:¢02 John Hertell@2:203/616.0 ¢03 Snail:¢02 John Hertell Jakthornsgatan 28 654 70 KARLSTAD SWEDEN ¢03 Voice:¢02 070-7403746 (Comviq-Compis GSM-cellular phone) ¢03 BBS:¢02 054-833882 ¢01 Chucky of ViRTUAL-¢02. Sysop at GangBang BBS and Aerosol Art Coder and Graffiti artist.