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From: huebner@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert E. Huebner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Lemmings/Psygnosis
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.185305.23883@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 21 Feb 91 18:53:05 GMT
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In article <1991Feb21.101342.2901@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> kxgj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
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>Yes, I will waste a bit of money to add fuel to a useless fire.  PSYGNOSIS--
>here's another person who won't buy your products because of your attitude
>towards hard drives, second drives, and multitasking.  I've bought three
>or four in the past but no more.  Thanks for all the consideration.

I've purchased several Psygnosis games but continue to do so.  I would
never consider buying a productivity package that doesn't HD install,
but all the whining about HD-installable games is getting boring.  I'd
much rather have Psygnosis write a game that can knock my socks off
(in terms of graphics an playability) that create a well-bahaved bore
like A-10 Tank Killer.  It sounds more like people want HD support
just because they have an HD.  Multitasking would be nice, granted, but
a one floppy disk game like Lemmings (the other disk is only accessed for
the intro and boot, it seems) isn't the type of thing I'd install on my
HD if it  did work!

>To the author of Lemmings (you surfaced awhile ago)-- Do you like the fact
>that your selection of software distributor is costing you sales??  Put
>pressure on them.  The inequity between the PC and Amiga version is insulting.

Yes, insulting to the PC!  The PC doesn't even have (according to the
manual, not personal experience) a two player mode - one of the most
entertaining ways to play this game.  So would you rather have 10 lines
of HD-Install code, or a completely different and entertaining way to
play Lemmings?  Russel Kay, who posted here, wrote the PC-specific code
only (as he stated) and I really doubt he was personally responsinble for
choosing Psygnosis.  DMA has been dealing with Psygnosis for quite a
while now.

>Are we to assume that now that IBM has realized that multitasking is a
>good thing (now that they can do it) that we will see a multitasking version
>of Lemmings for the PC before we see one for the Amiga??

Yeah, as soon as they develop a multitasking environment that's at least
slightly solid.  How many games currently work under Windows?  Now substract
the ones that don't multitask.  What's left?



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| Robert E. Huebner                   | "Death is nature's way of telling  |
| huebner@en.ecn.purdue.edu           |  you to slow down"                 |
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