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From: cs326ag@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Run (don't walk) to your store.  Lemmings has been released.
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.064217.26621@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 91 06:42:17 GMT
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> P.S. In case you're wondering PC Lemmings is HD installable, but
> requires a key disk, again                                      
> to prevent pirates.

That, my friend, is the straw that broke the... (and boy does it piss
me off.  And will it ever get me started...)

I was going to buy Lemmings, but when I read crap like this it
makes me wonder.  The PC version is HD installable, but the
Amiga version is not - what a load of crap!

Hell, I'll go one step farther, it sounds like Lemmings is the
type of game that could multitask...  Does it?  No, because I don't
think you guys would know how to make a game that would!  You are
just backwards programmers that only know how to throw away the OS
and talk directly to the hardware...  What a pathetic bunch...
I challenge DMA design to make a game, like Lemmings, that multitasks
properly on the Amiga, I don't think you can.

For christ's sake, the damn game has already been broken and has been
on pirate BBS's for three weeks (PC and Amiga version).  When you
piss off the people who do buy your games (and I have bought quite
a few of them...), they stop supporting you.  You have pissed me off.

Don't you guys understand, the people who aren't going to pay
for your product will find a way to crack it.  The people that
will buy your product will (and will be more willing) if the
product operates like they like.  Hell I've seen cracked versions
of some floppy only games that were HD installable, it makes one
want to just use the cracked version and say fuck the company
that releases crap this is not HD installable in the first place.
I truely hope this happens to Lemmings, it would serve you right!

Loren J. Rittle
I'm not going to buy Lemmings anymore.  As a matter of fact and 
principle, I will not buy another Psygnosis title.  Not till Psygnosis
starts making games that are HD installable.  Use a god damn look up the
word in the manual, if you're that paranoid! (Starting to wish you had
not ever posted a message in the first place?)
-- 
``NewTek stated that the Toaster *would not* be made to directly support the
  Mac, at this point Sculley stormed out of the booth...'' -A scene at the
  recent MacExpo.  Gee, you wouldn't think that an Apple Exec would be so
  worried about one little Amiga Device... Loren J. Rittle  l-rittle@uiuc.edu