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From: beust@avahi.inria.fr (Cedric BEUST)
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Subject: Re: Run (don't walk) to your store.  Lemmings has been released.
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Date: 28 Feb 91 13:11:49 GMT
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In article <5257@vela.acs.oakland.edu>, hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland) writes:

> [stuff deleted]
> non-standard DOS, etc is going to make it as fast as my HD. I like
> having a whole level load in 1 sec or less instead of 30 seconds. 30
> Seconds may not seem like much to ask unless you have gotten use to
> fast access loads. There are several requirements I have for games, HD
> installability is just the most important one in my mind. If great

  I can understand that, but I'm not so sure the speed argument is a good one.
You can't reasonably suppose that any HD installable game will load faster
than its floppy equivalent. As a matter of fact, the reason why so many
games use non standard OS is, apart for piracy reasons, that the programmers
can use their own disk-access routines, which happen to be *much* faster
than AmigaDos' ones (let alone compression considerations).

  The interest for a HD-installable game would be in a more indirect way,
I think: it would mean that such a game uses regular disk-access routines
and therefore, is multi-taskable. And yet, programmers can inhibit this,
and then again, I would understand this.

> games like Wings, Star Control, and others can support the HD, why
> can't Lemmings? (Wings is MUCH more enjoyable off of a HD) I also like

  As Lemmings' author said, Lemmings does support HD. Or will very soon.


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