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From: plouff@kali.enet.dec.com (Wes Plouff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Mike Farren Tutorial.
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Date: 27 Mar 91 16:10:00 GMT
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Boyohboy!  Mike Farren makes some carefully reasoned conjectures and the
flamefest begins!  He spins out a WHAT IF scenario... what if Lemmings
were designed to use Amiga standards?  What compromises would be
necessary?  Nobody so far has refuted his arguments that the only
compromises needed _might_ be a) less complicated intro animation and 
b) remove two visual puns on other Psygnosis games.  Is this a big lose
for Lemmings?  IMO, no.

Instead, the comment runs that Farren wants to compromise the
performance of Master Raster Plaster Blaster-type action games.  Read
again: he specifically doesn't.  The irony is that there's a very
popular game in the same general class of action and computation
intensity as Lemmings that satisfies Farren's entire wish list.
Sim City is another breakthrough game that is totally Amiga-friendly. 
Even comes with two diskettes in the box for 512K and larger memory
machines.  So why not Lemmings?

Oh, add me to the list of Americans who want HD-installable games.

-- 
Wes Plouff, Digital Equipment Corp, Maynard, Mass.
plouff@kali.enet.dec.com

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