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From: mndaily@ux.acs.umn.edu (Linda Seebach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Psygnosis games vs advanced technology...
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Date: 23 Nov 90 05:50:17 GMT
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Reply-To: mndaily@ux.acs.umn.edu (Linda Seebach)
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I have to come down on the side of upwards-compatability. If you write a
game which doesn't work on the 3000 under 2.0, but works on other amigas,
there is only one explanation.

There is something *seriously* wrong with your programming.

Just for the record: I have an a3000, and I have games. I can tell you this
much:

1] dungeon master works. However, you have to turn the computer off and start
  it up again under KS1.3, or it won't work. It's one of those cardinal sins -
  a copy-protected game you can't run off a hard drive. Get a life, folks.
  Although it's an ok game...
2] Populus will, so far as I know, not run at all.
3] Simcity works very well. It has a couple of bugs, but the people at Maxis
  were willing to listen to a bug report, and actually try to fix things.
4] Starflight: Works under 2.0 or 1.3 or their boot. However:
  Under 2.0, the mouse is (almost always) completely useless. They must be
  relying on something weird.
  Under 1.3, you get little scan lines in the graphics window occasionally.
  Under their boot (like, from the disk, or a disk copy) it works fine.
Almost everything else I've seen works ok...

Anyway, yes, you *would* get an a3000 and play games. The 3000 beats the hell
out of a 500 for games. Among other things, they move fast enough to be
interesting, and you can get interlace without that stupid flicker...

--SeebS-- (Peter, not Linda, Seebach)
Prophet in Exile