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From: rb4572@leah.Albany.Edu (Ron Bangel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Always-running 3/5" drive
Message-ID: <3387@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 22 Jul 90 21:21:32 GMT
Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center
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I recently purchased "Battle Squadron" from Innerprise Software, Inc.  It's
one HELL of a great game, but it worries me because of a particular thing that
it does.  You see, the disk drive runs ALL THE TIME, fromthe time you boot up
the machine until you (have to, there's no other way to get out of it) ctrl-
amiga-amiga to stop the drive and turn the machine off.  I have three questions
about this.

1. Is this harmful to the drive?  Because the game supports two players, we've
been up late playing this thing for hours... and the drive keeps running.

2. Is this harmful to the disk itself?

3. Does anyone know of any other games that incorporate this activity?  Sure, 
the game runs fast and there aren't very many delays to ruin play, but if I
had my choice, I'd buy a game that was a little easier on the disk drive...

Thanks!

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