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From: lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Laurana Bailey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Psygnosis Missing The Boat?
Message-ID: <6798@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 5 Jun 91 07:24:07 GMT
References: <1991Jun3.115402.22740@ssd.kodak.com>
Organization: Lemming-Aid 1992 - Benefit Concert To Save The Lemmings
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In article <1991Jun3.115402.22740@ssd.kodak.com> hoffmann@acl.kodak.com (marty hoffmann) writes:

>If I were paranoid, I would say Psygnosis did this key disk protection
>thing on purpose, so no one will buy the hard disk installable Lemmings
>and they can claim that hard disk installability (if that's a word) 
>is not something that people really want.  That's if I were paranoid.

You might have missed it, but a few months back there was a big thread
on this newsgroup blasting Psygnosis for their lack of HD support. A
good friend of mine was part of that thread and the end result was
that several people frm Psygnosis saw it, replied, and agreed to
produce a Hard Drive installable version of Lemmings. It was a major
victory among the masses.

The key disk protection issue doesn't bother me. The version of
Lemmings for the PC is HD installable and also requires Key Disk
protection. I don't mind Key Disk protection as long as I can install
it on my HD although I prefer Manual Word lookup if any protection is
going to be used.

It took Psygnosis a while to figure out that there were people in the
world with more than 512K RAM and one internal floppy let alone hard
drives so this is a good first step. Kudos to Psygnosis for at least
trying to please all the people even though some refuse to compromise.

Kudos also to Electronic Arts who's latest ports show a better attempt
at decent coding and also support the HD.


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