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From: levin@world.std.com (Levin F Magruder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Corporation Warning
Summary: Include addresses in postings like this
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.151006.18864@world.std.com>
Date: 14 Dec 90 15:10:06 GMT
References: <86769@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
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In article <86769@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <tj@anaconda.cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>
>	Subtitle: Things the magazine reviews don't tell you.
>
>	Anyone considering the purchase of Corporation (by Core
>Design Ltd.) should be aware of the following problems:
>
>	1. The game will not run in 68020 mode on my A2620 card.
>[amusing speculation about why deleted]
>	2. The game does not multi-task. . .
>	3. The game is not hard disk installable.  In fact, it has
>some kind of horrible disk protection that gronks the disk every so often.
>	4. Every time you initially load the game you must sit though
>a long intro. . . .
>	5. You can save your game to a formatted disk, but the program
>does not have a format capability built-in.
>. . . 
>	7. I've only played the game for a few hours and it has
>already crashed twice on restarts.
>. .  .

Points 3,4 and 7 bother me.  I'm going to call Briwall today, and this was
one of the games I was going to ask if they had, after having heard here
that the game was good.  Now, I'll hold on.  I can't tolerate games
that crash frequently, especially ones with long, non-bypassable intros.

So, as has often been noted here, readers of net news don't care what
programs I buy, software companies do.  

I suggest that when someone has  a post of this nature, they include
the software company's address and permission to reproduce the post,
so that some like me can write them a letter saying: "I was going to
buy Corporation, and then I saw this!  Let me know if you address these
problems, and maybe I'll buy the game at that time."

I assume such a statement will be within the guidelines when this new
comp.amiga.review group gets set up.