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From: bryce@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: FAUG demo of Powermonger by E.A. -- long review
Keywords: simply incredible
Message-ID: <16750@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 23 Dec 90 23:35:23 GMT
References: <1950@unlisys.in-berlin.de> <1990Dec5.110344.6364@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Reply-To: bryce@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bryce Nesbitt)
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In article <> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>First the bad news: the game is not hard drive installable, and won't
>multitask.  Paraphrasing:
>
>	...To put a game like this in that box, you haven't got any choice;
>	you have to nuke the operating system and take over the machine.
>	Make it HD installable or multitasking, and it won't run in 512K....
>
>Sigh.  You can't argue very hard with that logic.  They have to pay the
>bills.

Sure you can argue with that.  Simply require that the hard disk owner
has more memory.  The game either takes over and runs in 512K, or loads
all of itself from the hard disk, then takes over.

What is harder to figure out is why PowerMonger won't work under 2.0.

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