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- From: leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Leo Hendry)
- Subject: Re: POPULOUS ON THE ARCHIMEDES
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.022950.26286@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
- References: <2b2794eb.8ce84a.0@BEIZ.mediatex.ch> <1992Dec11.115112.27508@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> <7030@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 02:29:50 GMT
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- In article <7030@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> bosman@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk (Steve Bosman) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec11.115112.27508@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>, aroberts@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Andrew Roberts) writes:
- >|> I've been wondering about the same thing as the two player option is mentioned
- >|> in the manual but I've been unable to find it on the game itself. But this is
- >|> not suprising as the manual seems to have been done in a rush. Noticeable form
- >|> the non Archi screen shots, the upside-down shots and the occasional error just
- >|> to annoy you further.
- >
- >On the amiga version i used to play at a friends house the two player option was played over a link
- >between two amigas one as host the other as slave presumably ther's some way of doing this on the arc but
- >i haven't a clue what the connection is. The relevent menu options are
- On my ST version the link is via serial port and both machines are started up
- with a copy of the same map, each machine updating their version (hopefully in
- the same way) as the game went along.
-
- >i haven't a clue what the connection is. The relevent menu options are still there (i think its via the world icon
- >-- sorry can't be more specific but the power supply on my arc died two days ago so can't check it out)
-
- On Andy's Arc version the menu options were not there when I looked (but then
- the game hadn't been started in custom mode).
-
- - Leo.
-