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From: unland@cbmvax.UUCP (Rick Unland - Regional Support)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Populous
Message-ID: <7209@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jul 89 00:20:50 GMT
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Reply-To: unland@cbmvax.UUCP (Rick Unland - Regional Support)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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I had to remove my CSA 030/Dragstrip to get Populus to run, I know that sounds
drastic for a game but I think it is worth it.  I have not done anything
productive since I started playing it.  I am up to Nimihill the first ice 
world. I was unable to run it on an A2500 in 020 mode but ran fine in 68000,
It does not work on a CSA Midget or the Ronin Cards. I called EA and they
verified that the programmer knows it works only on 68000's.  I asked 
if they planned to do an upgrade and the guy did not know. I planned to call
EA again on wednesday and flame them a little more for being incompatible.

	BTW I think the game is excelent and is great to play, The graphics
are fantastic and all the things going on make it a different game every time.
The only complaint I have other than not being compatible, is response time on
raising or lowering the ground or selecting attributes, it's somewhat slow and
can get confused as to the actual position of the curser when the left mouse
button is pressed,  This would be taken care of if I could use it on the 
othirty 2620 or anything else with thirtytwo bit memory.  I hear that it can 
be made to work on these processors with a program called "superdecigel".
If anyone knows where this can be had and if it is PD like the original Decigel
then please Email me.
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