Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!sugar!karl
From: karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dragon's Lair
Summary: bought it, played it, flamed it
Message-ID: <3141@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 23 Dec 88 05:31:36 GMT
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OK, I bought DL and have been playing with it today.  The wait while loading
sequences is interminable.  The graphics are the best ever.  This game
represents a revolutionary advance, with all the beauty and the flaws of the 
original.

The hard disk support is absurd, as others have mentioned.  You have to
have a Comspec controller and a DL partition.  That's a pretty narrow
set of people.

What's really absurd, though, is that DL doesn't support memory beyond 1 MB.
So I'm sitting here with 5 MB of autoconfig RAM while the game grinds the
disk reloading the first set of imagery of Dirk going across the drawbridge
so we can play it again but reversed left to right.  It should still be
in RAM, dammit!  There's almost enough there for the contents of all six
disks.

Also, once you've died three times you have to start all over from the 
beginning.  I've gotten killed about twenty times trying to fight the 
snakes (somebody please email me what to do.)  At the rate I'm going, 
I'm going to have to walk the drawbridge and refuse the poison about 
ten thousand times.
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