Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Run (don't walk) to your store. Lemmings has been released. Message-ID: <1991Feb18.051008.11300@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 18 Feb 91 05:10:08 GMT References: <19040@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Feb16.193252.20795@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <19052@cbmvax.commodore.com> Distribution: comp Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 46 xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: > >> Ok with 2.0 on the >> 3000. Also works on A500 and A2500 systems. Psygnosis did things > ^^^^^^^^^ >Sure, right after I find out everyone is installing it on their hard >disks, and it isn't under a key disk protection scheme either. Until >then, just another big chance to waste money on Psygnosis Dreck(tm). bryce@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bryce Nesbitt) writes: > Once a thief, always a thief? No, and you're being insulting. I have over three dozen bought and paid for Amiga games on my hard drive, and probably twice that many that have copy protection that keeps them off the hard drive. The latter set NEVER get played by me; finding them in this mess is too much like housework (which I don't do either). I have no need for games that won't install on a hard drive, since I find them to be never played and so a waste of money. > Past Psygnosis products are infamous for certain problems; timing so > close to the edge they won't load on all machines, 68030 incompatible, > unreliable copy protection, etc. Psygnosis has a well earned reputation for copy protection schemes that beat floppy drives to death, and then won't work because the drive is out of exact adjustment. More than that, all that high speed head motion is hard on the disk medium, and Psygnosis game disks become unreadable depressingly early and often. > Lemmings is copy protected, and does use custom disk loaders. Those > loaders, however, show none of the traditional Psygnosis problems. > Lemmings works fine on all the machines here, including the top and > bottom end of the product line, under all revisions of the OS, and > even on a floppy drive that is sensitive to step rate (and breaks > other games). Not nearly good enough. I feel just as insulted when Psygnosis implies that I'm a thief, as I do when you do the same. This is all the customer base they've got. Insult us, we go away, at least the sensible ones of us do. Kent, the man from xanth.