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From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Hard Drive Installable Games Re: Full Metal Planet - Don't be mislead!
Message-ID: <1990Nov11.044137.27816@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Date: 11 Nov 90 04:41:37 GMT
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lrg7030@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren  Rittle) writes:

>> Talk about how Full Metal Planet can't be installed on 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.

Just as a point of information, I now have these games installed on and
playable from my new hard drive, all from original disks, not all without
some degree of pain:

	nethack 3.09i (of course)
	Keef the Thief
	Pipe Dream
	Dragon's Lair II, Escape from Singe's Castle (*)
	Zak McCracken and the Alien Mind Benders
	Maniac Mansion
	Targis (**)
	StarFlight
	Spy versus Spy
	Crystal Quest
	ChineseChess
	It Came from the Desert
	It Came from the Desert, II (Antheads)
	Zany Golf(***)
	Empire(****)
	SimCity
	I Ludicrus
	Pirates
	Their Finest Hour, The Battle of Britain 1940

(*)	The documentation claimed DL2 could link and install the original
	Dragon's Lair, but it died on a disk error; from a hard disk, this
	game is actually bearable.
(**)	Great rewrite of Lode Runner with more features
(***)	Needs the original as a key disk, but plays from HD
(****)	The commercial version

Several of the games will only boot if you get everything off the workbench
screen except a tiny window with the game icon (I still have just 512K of
chip ram); many require a warm boot to exit and will not multitask.  Still,
better than nothing.

For Keef the Thief, Pipe Dream, StarFlight, Spy versus Spy, Crystal Quest,
Desert, Desert2, Zany Golf, and I Ludicrus, I had to build IconX startup
scripts (usually from the startup-sequence and a little imagination), and/or
icons, but given the proper assignments, they are all doable.
                                                           /// It's Amiga
                                                          /// for me:  why
Kent, the man from xanth.                             \\\///   settle for
<xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us>   \XX/  anything less?
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