| From: | David Marshman |
| Date: | 17 Sep 2000 at 22:27:08 |
| Subject: | AMIOPEN: AMI Game distribution philosphy |
Hi guys, I've been pondering on this subject for a while, and the
recent Dreamcast/Sega threads have stirred me into action :)
Gary, this may be aimed at you, but i was just wondering what everyone
elses thoughts are....
Given the write once, run anywhere design of Elate/AMI, will game
developers/publishers be allowed to distribute a basic, run-time
version of the Amiga environment (for many OS/hardware configurations)?
(basically, somthing along the lines of the way most Win9x games come
with a copy of DirectX on the CD, will Amiga allow developers to
licence/include the required parts of the AMIVerse on the game CD)?
The above scenario would allow a game to be written for a minimum
(hypothetical) hardware spec. (say 16 MB RAM, xMB of non-volatile
storage, 640X480 screen, etc....), and supply the game to customers of
the following (assuming the Elate/AMI binaries exist), e.g. :-
Sega Dreamcast
Win 2***/Me
PS2
Linux
MacOS
BeOS
etc.....
Is this the intended scheme??
---
David
(p.s. sorry for putting everyone to sleep....)
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