Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!starsoft!david From: david@starsoft.UUCP (Dave Lowrey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Populous for all Amigas! Message-ID: Date: 12 Oct 90 16:03:17 GMT References: <32943@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Lines: 26 >In article <32943@nigel.ee.udel.edu> lawsonse@vttcf.cc.vt.edu (Shannon Lawson) writes: > >After talking with many Populous owners, it appears to me that the reason the >game will not run on any other processor but the 68000 is due to the copy >protection scheme encoded on the disk. To back up their claim, some of these >same folks have mentioned that if a backup is made with a copier which removes >protection, the game runs. Maybe, but it will run way too fast!!! The game doesn't check the copy protection till after the demo screen. If I boot it up on my 2500 (68020), the demo runs much faster. I would assume that the game also would go faster. Doesn't anyone in Europe have 68020 or 68030 Amigas??? It seems that the majority of games that come from there either don't work, or run too fast on a non-68000 based Amiga. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- These words be mine. The company doesn't care, because I am the company! :-) Dave Lowrey | david@starsoft or {uhnix1,moray}!starsoft!david Starbound Software Group | Houston, TX | "Dare to be stupid!" -- Weird Al Yankovic