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- From: Simon Brown <simes@amdev.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,demon.tech.amiga
- Subject: Re: Amiga Software and Dealers.
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 96 20:59:19 GMT
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- Martin Leslie Baker? We have reason to believe that on or around Wed, 17
- Jan 96 you did type the following:
-
- > Thompson Yip (yu138240@yorku.ca) wrote:
- > : Martin Leslie Baker (mlb@rekab.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- > : : [Sim City 2000: Good Game?]
- > :
- > : : 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.
- >
- > I don't expect it to run the same speed. I do expect it to be playable though.
- >
- > My point is that it's slow on an 030 and I hate to think what it's like on an
- > A1200 with just a FastRAM card.
-
- One of the reasons it's so slow is that it does lots of illegal memory
- accessing. If you run Enforcer it gets *really* slow.
-
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- Simon Brown <simes@amdev.demon.co.uk> // Software producer to the gentry.
- http://uptown.turnpike.net/S/simes/ \X/ Beyond normal medical help.
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- "Never seen 'im before in me life."
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