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From: lrg7030@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren  Rittle)
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Subject: Re: Full Metal Planet - Don't be mislead!
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Date: 10 Nov 90 23:12:45 GMT
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> Talk about how Full Metal Planet can't be installed on a hard-drive

Yup,  I talked with a rep from the company that does this game and
Chamber of the Sci-Mutant... at GEN CON90 this past summer.  I
told him that I was not pleased at the fact that none of their
games were hard-drive installable on the Amiga.  He said something
to the effect that, ``Not many Amiga owners have hard-drives so
it is not worth our time to make a game HD installable.'' I, of
course, fired back that it is plainly easier to make any program 
on the Amiga support a HD because you *have* to go out of your way
to not support a HD!  In fact, the only reason one would want to
make a program or game uninstallable is to try to stop copying.  I 
also said to this man that the only people who are hurt by their
f*cking copy protection are the valid owners.  I buy a lot of
games, but in this case I would say wait for the cracked version
that supports a hard drive.  Don't buy this game or any other from
this company that thumbs their noses at Amiga users.  I will say this,
the game looked cool, I would buy it if I could put it on my HD.

Loren J. Rittle