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- From: jerry@arlut.utexas.edu (Jerry Heyman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga Software and Dealers.
- Date: 17 Jan 1996 22:27:42 GMT
- Organization: UT Applied Research Laboratories
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- Thompson Yip (yu138240@yorku.ca) wrote:
- : Martin Leslie Baker (mlb@rekab.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- :::
- :::: I picked up a copy of SimCity 2000. Priced at 12.99 UKP instead of RRP of
- :::: 34.99 UKP (I think), so I decided to buy it.
- ::::
- :::: Obviously they haven't sold many.
- :::
- ::: Or they'd had a lot returned. Bloody good game though.
- :::
- ::: C-YA
- ::: Jon
-
- :: What? Do you have a 100 MHz 68060 or somthing???? ;)
-
- :: This game is so slow it stinks. They should have put on the box that you
- :: need at least a 68030, if not 040.
-
- :: How Maxis can expect someone with just a 4 MB board to play this on an A1200
- :: 020 @ 14 MHz is totally beyond me.
-
- : Currently, all IBM games need at least 486/66 + 8M ram + CD-ROM. How can you
- : expect a port can run faster than this configuration on Amiga? Anyway, there
- : is no more game from MAXIS. Someone told me that they'd dropped Amiga.
-
- No surprise. I have an A3000/16 with 10MB of memory. Tried to run SimCity
- Classic - no dice. Program starts up, but when it prompts me for the password
- (manual look up stuff), the font is screwed up and I can't type anything in.
- Forced to reboot.
-
- Being here in the States, when I called Maxim (San Diego, CA), they told me
- that all their Amiga support was in the UK. Too far for me to call, and when
- I checked the requirements of the software, it said A500/A2000/A2500 with
- WB 1.3 or greater (I'm running 3.1).
-
- Can't imagine why it won't work - but right now its a waste of money from
- my standpoint.
-
- jerry
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