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From: hrlaser@pnet02.cts.com (Harv Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dungeon Master WARNING
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Date: 15 Dec 88 19:20:15 GMT
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Gary Heffelfinger: Let me phrase what I said in a slightly different way...
No, Dungeon Master doesn't multitask.  Yes it has a game-pause feature.
(You'll get into the game so deeply that you'll HAVE to pause it from
time to time just to get yourself some food or answer nature's call,
unless you're more superhuman than the characters you're controlling
in the game :-) ... Yes it's copy protected and that's that. Now you have
to make the decision as to whether or not the game is GOOD enough so that
you can push these problems aside and buy it and enjoy it.  In other words,
does the excellence of the game itself outweigh its running environment's
disadvantages.  For my $32 (I bought it - didn't get a freebie "press"
copy or anything), the answer is a resounding YES.  

Hey, one man's garbage is another man's prune danish.  But I can tell you
with all honesty I've had spent more pleasurable (and confounding) hours
playing DM than any other game I can remember.  

In *MY* opinion, if this is the kind of quality that FTL is capable of
delivering in gameplay, I'll put up with copy protection and single-
tasking.  Your own mileage may vary.  Yeah, I'd like it unprotected and
yeah I'd like to flip to another screen and do something else while the
game is paused, but I understand FTL's reasons for what they did, and 
for *ME* the game is good enough to forgive them.

Harv Laser, Sysop, The People/Link AmigaZone.  Plink: CBM*HARV
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