Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!paul.rutgers.edu!njin!fdurt1!wisdom!tronsbox!dfrancis 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: <1410@tronsbox.xei.com> Date: 19 Feb 91 15:39:49 GMT References: <12274@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1405@tronsbox.xei.com> Organization: Romantic Encounters BBS Lines: 56 In article mofo@bucsf.bu.edu (jason greene) writes: | |> |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. | | Ummmmm... I think he meant that for people WITHOUT a harddrive it would |be a very large pain. Imagine playing a 2-disk adventure game on a |one-drive system. Just as bad as three disks on a 2 drive system. So go buy a hard drive. Or a second floppy, if you can't afford a hard drive. At the moment, I don't have a hard drive, but I don't expect the rest of the world to warp itself so I won't have to live with an inconvenience. | |> 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 | | I was under the impression that Psygnosis just wanted to make the best |games which, IMHO, they continue to do. Not to mention that making |something that compatible would mean instant piracy and no revenue for the |company. Hey, whaddya need? I'm not a pirate, but I know people who are. I can get my hands on any of this stuff. Same ol' story; there has to be some way of getting the program off the disk and into the computer, and that means it can be cracked. | |> 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. | | What I can never understand is this: if people pay "thousands" so that |they can have a great accelerated system, why don't they ever whine about |why the accelerators can't be turned off by software? BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO TURN THEM OFF!!!!! I didn't buy a 68030 board because I wanted to turn it off and not use it! | |and lastly, if you don't feel like rebooting (oh, no!), don't. | |And miss out. On what? I don't need Lemmings to live. There are enough games out there that will run on my machine that I don't feel "deprived"; plus I've got a Nintendo. And in any case, the best games *I've* ever played don't run on computers and have human beings on the other side of the board. dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com ...uunet!tronsbox!dfrancis GEnie: D.HEFFERNAN1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I don't understand why you make such a big deal out of everything...haven't you learned; if it's not happenning to me it's not important?" -Murphy Brown