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From: hclausen@adspdk.UUCP (Henrik Clausen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: SSI D&D games
Message-ID: <1847813b.ARN04236@adspdk.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 90 12:48:43 GMT
References: <1278@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU>
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In article <1278@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU>, George Lin [900116] writes:

> Pool of Radiance:  Better sound than the other two but sloooow with a lot
> of encounters that usually consists of more than 20 level 1 creatures 
> at each encounter.  Due to the game speed, it takes more than 20 minutes just
> to go through 1 round.  

   But then, it runs nicely on the A3000! So does Champions, and Curse will
run under 1.3. At 68030 speed, _everything_ is fast. Even some stuff that 
should've been slow (Grin).

> And guess what--SSI used a different company to do each conversion!  
> They should've used US GOLD (I think that's the group that did Champions.)

   Pool Of Radiance is said to have been in a lot of trouble getting to
the market, and it's not really debugged. Some bugs are real tough, like
my 8th level figther who's dead, and PoR crashes with a Division by Zero
when I raise him. Or the Cloak of Displacement that causes an instant 
reboot! 
   My favorite was when I got 65535 Jewelry sets to end all my finance
worries :-) I had to discard 64300 of those just to be able to walk away
from the scene. Money IS a problem - if you collect what you get, your 
pockets are so heavy the monsters will run circles around you :-)


   Moving on to CoK Real Soon Now                        -Henrik


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