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To: Charles Hughes who wrote (301)	3/6/1998 4:47:00 AM
From: Sleeperz	Read Replies (1) of 633

Isn't the brilliant fun kid going to use the $19 Borland Command Line compiler to develop games for the PC?? Probably not, times have changed. Today its GUIs and IDEs. Unless you can effectively program a GUI using a CL compiler you have to pay up for an IDE. Also back in the days of $19 Borland compilers, PCs cost alot more too. Although the only compilers I saw even close to that price were the Student versions. Actually most kids have their parents buy them their first PCs and SW. Then they start making big bucks programming for the corporate development houses. Make lots of money and then can buy lots of toys. The programmer who wrote Capture the Flag for Quake sort of started out that way. Now ID hired him to do CTF for Quake II. He now has 2 well equipped PII PCs one with a Voodoo card. Not cheap. Would Bill Gates be Bill Gates of MSFT fame if his parents instead of being lawyers were just blue collar workers. Probably not. >>>You compare the price of these tools to MSVC? What kid can buy this? Sure, I buy it - I have lots of customers willing to pay me well to rewrite yesterdays (corporate ideas of what makes an entertaining game) news with that compiler. They end up paying for it. That brilliant, fun kid who doesn't want to sell out to the corporate development houses, or is too young to play there? SOL.<<< Todays Games look a lot different than the old PC side scroller and maze games. Which BTW looked all the same too. If the PSX and N64 games all looked and played the same why would they be developing so many different types of games then? Maybe they all look the same because they are all using the same latest 3D techniques? >>> That's why almost all these games look the same. You need big bucks to play, and the system is just like the system that produces the TV sitcoms - only even cheesier and more gutless.<<< cl

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