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How little does the latest generation know anyway ?
ROFL! 
Oh I wish I was part of the
"latest generation". To know what I know now and to have the Last twenty years back...
I hope you didn't perceive my comments as some sort of flame. What you are describing sounds like a great game. And I have no doubt in your abilities to pull it off. I am simply saying if you are waiting for someone to hand you a check up front, you'll be waiting a while.
I am not in anyway a programming whiz. In fact except for a little playing with BASIC programs as a kid on a trash-80 and Vic-20 (I'm dating myself now
) I have never had the patience to do anything close to what you are talking about.
As far as my comments regarding Windows, I am by no means an appologist for "The Bill". You missed my point I think when I said "Windows, or something like it". Gates did nothing extordinary except take advantage when he saw an opportunity. If he hadn't, someone else would have. I think the term is "Zeitgeist".
My point was simply that without making computers more attractive and accesable to the unwashed masses, you would
still be tinkering around on your 8Mhz, 512K ram, 20 MB hard drive computer(Heck my first three computers didn't even have hard drives. Anybody remember casette tapes?
) writing incrededibly efficient 20K code-line programs with which to amaze your other computer nerd friends. But would never even be considering writing a program to sell to casual gamers.
I am not a programmer, but I am a history buff, and I know a little about economics. It's all supply and demand.
Geo