| From: | David Marshman |
| Date: | 18 Sep 2000 at 01:42:34 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: AMI Game/App distribution philosphy |
Jesse did scribe:
>> From: "David Marshman" <marshy@silvan.demon.co.uk>
>>
>> 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)?
>
>I can tell you what I've proposed.
>
>The core Ami installable can always be on the media, it's owned
>by the creator(s).
>
>There should be a "wrapper" install available for each platform.
<snip> lots of really good stuff </snip>
>Once again, just an idea I proposed.
Great stuff - Yep, this is exactly what I was imagining - have you had
any feedback to your proposals?
I imagine there'll be a few technical problems that will need coding
out - e.g:
- game saves - how do you accomplish it on such a wide variety on
hardware without lots of unique code
[VMU on dreamcast, hard disk on desktops, god knows what on
PDAs, etc....),
or will there just be a standard elate API for such stuff (with AMI/
tao writing the system level code)...??
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David
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