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- From: elm4@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Ed Mackey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
- Subject: Re: Sierra is gone
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.014626.6126@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 01:46:26 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
- Lines: 49
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- In article <Andy.02y9@Birdland.UUCP>, Andy@Birdland.UUCP (Andy Patrizio) writes:
- >I spoke to Sierra On-Line today. They are definitely out of the Amiga
- >market. The reason? Low sales, and the fact that their products are being
- >made for 386 and up. When they convert it to a 68000, which is what most
- >Amigas are running on, it comes out badly. When that happens, Amiga owners
- >bitch.
-
- But of course. That's because they ported it from a 386 to a 68000, so
- it slows down and people complain. What they _should_ be doing is porting
- it from a 386 to a 68000 plus custom chips and blitter. Why is this so
- hard to figure out?
-
- >I've heard that more than once, too. Amiga owners are complainers who bitch
- >and moan if the Amiga version is one color or one pixel short of the PC
-
- And why should it be one pixel short, when it could be worlds smoother
- and better?
-
- >version. You can't blame them for not wanting to bother with a small group
-
- A small group bought more than 3 million Amigas?
-
- >that is never satisfied.
-
- We're satisfied with a number of programs -- take a look at Lemmings.
-
- >Before you start flaming me,
- [too late]
- > name ONE PC product that was ported to the
- >Amiga that the community gave a positive reaction to.
-
- Lemmings, according to many IBMers I've talked to, is much more fun in
- its Amiga incarnation... but maybe you don't consider that a port
- from IBM to Amiga, so let me pick another:
-
- Stellar 7. A game by Dynamix (child company of Sierra itself!) that was
- originally available for IBM and then ported to Amiga. A lot of Amiga users
- like it. Maybe that's because S7 does not make the Amiga crawl along as if
- it were running at 0.25 MHz, like Space Quest IV does. Why can't Sierra
- figure this out?? :-(
- --Ed.
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