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From: pashdown@javelin.es.com (Pete Ashdown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: FAUG demo of Powermonger by E.A. -- long review
Keywords: simply incredible
Message-ID: <1990Dec12.190936.3023@javelin.es.com>
Date: 12 Dec 90 19:09:36 GMT
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buffa@kish.inria.fr (Michel Buffa) writes:

>Tell me ONE good arcade game that multitask on the amiga.

Mindwalker.  For that matter, all of Bill Williams games are very OS friendly
and work on all platforms.  He also programs exclusively in assembly language.
I haven't seen any European hack-slash programmers animate HAM like what was
done in Pioneer Plague.

Also keep in mind that Mindwalker was one of the first games out for the Amiga.
I believe it came out around Kickstart 1.0.  Because Bill Williams followed
guidelines, the only fix that has been needed for it was fixhunk and this is
forgiveable because there weren't any specs on fast-ram at the time.

>    Internet:       buffa@sardaigne.inria.fr

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