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- From: Jonathan Waland <walaj@abstruse.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,demon.tech.amiga
- Subject: Re: Amiga Software and Dealers.
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 96 18:34:57 GMT
- Organization: Private Node
- Message-ID: <9601191834.AA001mj@abstruse.demon.co.uk>
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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.
-
- Where from? One of the high street game chains, isn't/wasn't doing
- too well, was selling of their stocks at this price.
-
- : : : : Obviously they haven't sold many.
- : : :
- : : : Or they'd had a lot returned. Bloody good game though.
- : : :
- : : This game is so slow it stinks. They should have put on the box that you
- : : need at least a 68030, if not 040.
-
- AFAIK the port was done from the Mac version, with only a small amount of
- changes. So you might say that it isn't very optimised ;-)
-
-
- : : 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.
-
- Although, according to CU-Amiga they are now considering coming back
- into the fold...
-
- jo
-