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From: dve@zooid.UUCP (David Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Populous + back-to-back
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Date: 19 Sep 90 23:26:37 GMT
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stelmack@screamer.csee.usf.edu (Gregory M. Stelmack) writes:

> Two replies, one post
> 
> Populous plays back-to-back, and can even do it back-to-back with an Atari ST
> (which my roommate has).
> 
> To the guy asking if it can compete w/ IBM -- I don't know, but if it was my
> article on Populous you were referring to I play against an Atari ST, not IBM
> -- didn't think the IBM could handle a decent Populous...( I know that IBM
> Speedball is slow........)
> 

Not meaning to start a war here, but the speed of Speedball depends on the 
speed of the PC. My 386 handles it just fine. 

Theoretically, Populous should work back to back with Amiga and PC (by the 
way, the games look identical, but the sound on the PC side is, of course, 
pathetic, even with a sound card) and it does work for a while, but then it 
conks out when the landscape changes drastically. Maybe a bug. I also have 
an Amiga and we used a null modem cable at 9600 baud so I don't think it was 
line noise.