Path: utzoo!dciem!nttor!contact!dmntor!bill
From: bill@dmntor.UUCP (Bill Kyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: It's time for 1 meg games!
Message-ID: <1991Jan23.141754.13339@dmntor.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 91 14:17:54 GMT
Reply-To: bill@dmntor.UUCP (Bill Kyle)
Organization: Digital Media Networks, Toronto, Canada
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I bought my Amiga 500 over 2 years ago. Over that time I figure I have
used it for 90%-games 10% Word-pro. The first addition to my machine was
an Amiga 501 card which gave me over 1meg RAM. Why did I buy the A501 you 
ask.....? Because I wanted to play Falcon...then later DM. Both games are 
outstanding. Unfortunately I assumed that these 1meg req'd games were a 
trend and that by now there would be bundles of games available that 
took advantage of this very basic expansion of the A500. But NO!!...we 
are still getting riped-off by shitty little C64 conversions over to
the A500 which say "minimum 512k required" because the A500 has at
least 512k in it anyhow. I digress.

In Canada the the A501 card costs about 2 times the price of a good Amiga
game (2 X $50-60). Yet there are people running around buying 10 $50 games
a year who won't fork out $100-130 to double your RAM. So we have S/W houses
still anchored to 512K even with impressive games like Falcon and DM selling
well. Those S/W houses realised that MANY serious gamers have expanded
to 1meg+ RAM. 

Before you flame me....I am not a hacker/guru/egghead with a fully blown 
Amiga XYZ with 3 megs etc etc. I realise that most Amiga's in the world
are A500's especially in Europe. People...if you have an A500 and blow
$300 a year on new games do yourself a favor and expand your RAM...buy DM
and CSB and enjoy. 

Let's rock the boat a little.