Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Populous Data Disk Message-ID: <1990Aug19.075611.8526@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 19 Aug 90 07:56:11 GMT References: <3983@crash.cts.com> Organization: SF Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 24 In article <3983@crash.cts.com> steves@pnet01.cts.com (Stephen Scheck) writes: > > What does the Populous Promised Lands data disk add to the program? Is >it worth getting? > Steve > Hard to tell; the new terrain types are eye-catching and fun, but (at least the copy I got) was a prime example of poor software quality control. Text strings showed up in the wrong boxes, so other text was absent, and the game seemed to crash every third level. My hardware is pretty vanilla, just a 2000 plus the Commodore memory expansion card porked up with an extra 8 megabytes, and a modem, always off when I played the game, and I was booting from the store bought copy. Can others confirm or deny the problems? My _impression_ was that you were still playing the same 500 levels, just with spiffy new graphics, but I didn't fight with it long enough to know that for sure. Kent, the man from xanth.