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From: dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com (Dennis Heffernan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Run (don't walk) to your store.  Lemmings has been released.
Message-ID: <1405@tronsbox.xei.com>
Date: 17 Feb 91 08:41:43 GMT
References: <19040@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Feb16.193252.20795@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <12274@helios.TAMU.EDU>
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In article <12274@helios.TAMU.EDU> cmw1725@tamsun.tamu.edu (Christopher Walton) writes:
|You are missing out...  When will people realize that hard disk installation
|is not everything...  You have to give up some things for a great game.

	You're right, of course.  Lack of copy protection and compatability
with ALL accellerated Amigas are equally important.

|The game is not diskintensive, and does not lag long enough to warrant a boy-
|cott of its sale.  You have to realize that most of psygnosis` games are
|VERY large (over 2 megs), and if one was to make it hard drive installable
|most likely it would have to be in DOS format, which means 3 or more disks,
|and lots of disk swapping, which everyone hates as well...  You have to

	Unless, of course, you have a hard drive.

|give a little to get a little, don't forget...  If you are content to playing
|the same old, same old, then fine, but I would say that you are going to miss
|out on a lot in the long run...

	I *could* attach a switch to my GVP accellerator so I could reboot
with the 68000 active, but I fail to see why I should TURN OFF something I
paid a thousand bucks for just because some twits can't write proper software.
Psygnosis and their brethren expect you to use your Amiga like a Nintendo.
I was under the impression that I gave up rebooting for each application with
my C64.  If they want my money, let them support my hardware AND its OS.
Otherwise, to hell with them.  I've GOT a Nintendo, and I may yet pick up a 
Genesis, and there's always the arcade down the street.


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