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From: DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: FAUG demo of Powermonger by E.A. -- long review
Message-ID: <90347.103037DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 90 15:30:37 GMT
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In article <22110@well.sf.ca.us>, farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren) says:

>but that doesn't change the fact that it's just sloppy.  No disk accesses?
>What the hell difference do disk accesses make, if you can limit them to

A very big difference!!! I hate endless disk access; I hate ANY disk access!
I'm sure lots of people feel the same way. The most playable games usually have
little or no disk access. I don't really care if such a game is system-nasty,
either. On the other hand, massive 3-disk games MUST be hard disk installable,
or take advantage of my 3megs of RAM, to be playable. Being system-friendly is
a real advantage here.

By the way, of all the people I know personally here at school with Amigas,
only ONE person does not have a hard drive. (He has 1meg & 2 floppies). In
fact, the vast majority have 2000s with 40MB hard drives & 3MB of RAM. Not all
the world is running 512K Amigas with 1 floppy. And yes, we all play lots of
games!

-- Dan Babcock