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From: raz%kilowatt@Sun.COM (Steve -Raz- Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Populous Review (long)
Keywords: game EA copy-protected works only with 68000
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Date: 20 Jul 89 16:36:02 GMT
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I am posting this for another....


From: ames!mailrus!uflorida!unf7!tlvx!sysop
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 89 16:31:38 -0400
To: unf7!uflorida!haven!ames!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!kilowatt!raz
Subject: Re: Populous Review (long)
In-Reply-To: your article <115903@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>

> In article <431@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (John Lindwall) writes:
> 
> 
> >				Review of
> 
> >				POPULOUS
> 
> >			Amiga game from Electronic Arts
> {Then in a lost article # I write:}
>   I have heard from some one with an 25mhz '030 machine that this game
> is one of those that relies on the 68K running at 7.1foo Mhz. Can
> anyone confirm this with an '020 machine?
> 
>  The game sounds neet, but I won't buy it if it won't work with
> turbo'ed Amigas.
> 
> Steve -Raz- Berry      Disclaimer: I didn't do nutin!
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Hi.

I bought Populous, but I had to take it back.  It SEEMS that it doesn't like
my 68010, but that's just a guess.  I have a replacement disk drive, so maybe
it could be that, but I doubt it.  I wanted to post to USENET, but my postnews
doesn't seem to be working correctly.  Hmm.  My *GUESS* is that it's the copy
protection scheme.  I tried calling EA, but they must have taken off early that
day (no answer at a little after 4:00 pacific time).... I took the game back
anyway.

Maybe if they update it, I'll buy it later.... It's really annoying to buy
programs which may or may not run.  I mean, if companies think Amiga owners
are going to have 7.16 MHz 68000's forever, they're just plain stupid.  After 
all, look at the upgrades in the clone world (8088, 8086, 80286, 80386), and 
companies work hard to make things work for everything.  A lot of Amiga games
work great.

Anyway, I wanted to post this to all, but never mind!  heh.  Maybe some others
will call EA and complain.  If they get a few people complaining, they'll start
to think, "Gee, maybe someone out there plays games on something other than an
A500!  Imagine that!"  Again, I have no way of knowing if the CPU is the
real problem or not;  I do *NOT* want to open my system up and swap CPU's to
find out.  That is not a proper solution.

Let me know (or post to USENET) what you find out from others... sorry I'm
not more help.

Later!

---
Gary Wolfe, SYSOP of the Temporal Vortex BBS



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