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From: buffa@kish.inria.fr (Michel Buffa)
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Subject: Re: FAUG demo of Powermonger by E.A. -- long review
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Date: 17 Dec 90 15:04:21 GMT
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In article <22195@well.sf.ca.us>, farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren) writes:
> DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
> 
> >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 agree totally. Saint dragon has no game break as it loads continuously while
the game is running. Programmers of the sales curves designed a dynamic loader
so that the game never stops. Silkworm IV will use that dynamic loading
system, and it will certainly be a great game. Of course it won't multitask,
but who cares ?

> You weren't listening carefully.  I don't like disk accesses in the middle of
> a game, either, but if they're carefully designed so that they only occur
> during otherwise "normal" breaks in the game, then it doesn't make that much
> of a difference - the additional annoyance factor is minimal.  Certainly,
> disk accesses right in the middle of play are a pain, and shouldn't be there.
> But disk accesses to load in the next level, or to load in the "control panel"
> overlay, or the like, just don't make that much difference.

Yes, it does. I prefer no disk access than just a little.

> 
> In the name of honesty, I must admit that Storm Across Europe has too many
> disk accesses.  In order to get it to fit into 512K, I had to do some strange
> tweaking, including running it with overlays.  The only time it's a real pain
> is on a single-floppy system, but even there the disk accesses are at "normal"
> points within the game, so it doesn't annoy nearly as much as it might.  Still,
> I offer no excuses - I done it wrong, and the only excuse I can offer is the
> time constraints I was working under.

I excuse you as I didn't buy your game, but think a little about the poor guy
with a single A500 with one drive !!!!! He'd certainly kill you for such
painful disk access.


> -- 
> Mike Farren 				     farren@well.sf.ca.us

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