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From: djh@neuromancer.metaphor.com (Dallas J. Hodgson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: FA/18 Flight Sim Multitasks on A-3000
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Date: 4 Mar 91 21:55:48 GMT
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Here's one for Psygnosis and all those other gamewriters who justify
monopolizing the machine for the every last ounce of CPU power, try this:

1) Install Bob Dinnerman's "FA/18 Flight Interceptor" on your hard disk.
2) newcli aux:
3) Changetaskpri the aux cli to 10.
4) Run FA/18 from a different CLI.

What do you know, the thing RUNS and RUNS WELL. The game doesn't run too
fast, crash on the A-3000's high memory or lock up. In fact, most CLI
commands make little impact on the performance of the game. Amazing!

A tip of the hat to Robert Dinnerman, for an amazingly high-performance and
fine game that runs on the A-3000 before the A-3000 was even available.
Playing by the rules DOES work, after all.

If you NewZAP the df0: references in FA/18 you can restrict its disk loading
to files off your hard disk. I spent a couple evenings removing the manual
keyword copyprotection also; I wouldn't have wasted my time unless the game
was THAT good! (and cheap, to boot!)
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