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From: cseaman@sequent.UUCP (Chris "The Bartman" Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Globulous Demo ???
Message-ID: <52180@sequent.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 91 19:18:24 GMT
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kyp@stsci.EDU (Mark Kyprianou) writes:
< > This is a fully playable demo of the arcade game Globulous...
< > 
< > Globulous is a lot like the game Q*bert with a little PacMan
< > thrown in. This demo requires a joystick to play. The demo
< > runs on a Amiga 3000 with KickStart 36.207 and WorkBench
< > 36.69 under AmigaDos 2.0. When uncompressed , this demo
< > has the name GlobulousNTSCDemo so it might not run on PAL
< > machines.
< Does it run on AmigaDos 1.3 or only AmigaDos 2.0?

The demo does indeed run on 1.3, as well as accelerated
Amigas.  After trying the demo, I found the game on
sale at Software Etc for $14.98, so I picked it up.  While
the GAME runs on any platform, the COPY PROTECTION doesn't.
I have to boot in 68000 mode.  Hopefully, Project D will
fix this problem.  Anyone know?

BTW, in another article someone stated that Globulus and
Turrican (the full versions, not the demos) failed to run
under 1.3.  This is not true.  The copy protection chokes
on non-68000 processors, but there are no OS related
problems that I have encountered with either game.

Regards,
Chris

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