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From: sysop@tlvx.UUCP (SysOp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: POWERMONGER: Are we buying release 0.90 ?READ
Summary: Problems with some games in general, misc. ramblings
Message-ID: <459@tlvx.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 91 18:34:47 GMT
References: <9DocV1w164w@halcyon.uucp> <9522@lmrc.uucp> <54391@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Organization: Temporal Vortex BBS of Jacksonville, Florida
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In article <54391@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, ztsindi@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Bill Gant) writes:
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> In article <9522@lmrc.uucp>, hassinger@lmrc.uucp (Bob Hassinger) writes...
> >I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one!
> 
> Nope, you are not alone.  I have had repeating problemswith the sfx getting 
> stuck and the graphics repeating regardless of the instructions given to the 
> computer.  A friend of mine has to fight with his copy to get it to save!

You know, when I formatted my save disk, it seemed to just "go away" for a long
time.  After a couple of minutes, I got impatient and just ejected the disk.
It's working fine, saving my games.  :-)  I've had minor glitches during
the game, but as I posted before, the most annoying thing was not being able
to run it on a friend's 1-meg (new agnus?) A500 without "nofast."
> 
> Geez, what did they push on us?

In my mind, the "lemme-take-over-your-machine" programmers are ultimately
at fault.  For one example, for the person who can't get PowerMonger
to format a save disk, if PM used the OS, there would be no problem
formatting a disk  -- it's in there!  Sure, problems should be caught with
testing, but at least OS things should theoretically be stable, so why not
use them?  That's what it's there for.  Problems aside, PowerMonger is a
very fun game!

Recently, I picked up Treasure Trap, partially because of it being mentioned
here, and partially because it was on sale.  Guess what?  Wouldn't run on
my machine.  It's self-booting and takes over the whole machine, and so you
can't use things like "nofastmem";  I had that "nofast" program which gives
you 512K upon reboot.  It worked.  I have to ask, though, why in 1990 are
games still being written for 512K-only machines?  Or is there some other
reason it won't run on an Amiga 1000 with 2.5 megs?  (I mean, it's not like
the A1000 is unusual.  :-)  I only have 1 floppy, too.)  Otherwise, Treasure
Trap is very good.

I also bought NY Warriors on sale.  It's a fairly basic shoot-em-up.  I seem 
to have gotten halfway through the game in a couple of hours.  Nothing
noteworthy. 

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>  |                Clayton J. Miner - Reality Engineer                  |
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Disclaimer: hey it is all opinion!
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Gary Wolfe, SYSOP of the Temporal Vortex BBS                        // Amiga!
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