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- From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
- Subject: Re: Global Effect: Always freezing over!
- Message-ID: <38252@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 03:44:42 GMT
- References: <19114@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- Jeff_Holinski@mindlink.bc.ca (Jeff Holinski) writes:
- >I've had Global Effect for months and I've been looking for a fix for the
- >freezing problem. I haven't found one yet and the last time I called even
- >Electronic Arts tech support couldn't help me. They just told me they'd
- >gotten lots of calls from other customers with the same problem.
- >It would be a real good game if you could play it for more than a few minutes
- >without failing.
-
- The freezing is intentional, in order to make it a "game", and not
- a pure simulation. You need to make coal/oil plants, cut down lots of
- trees (less CO2 absorbed), etc.
-
- Very pretty, but it missed the point of why people like SimCity/Earth/
- etc.
-
- However, Toby did a pretty good job of making a system-friendly game.
-
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- GNU Emacs is a LISP operating system disguised as a word processor.
- - Doug Mohney, in comp.arch
-
- Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering.
- jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com BIX: rjesup
- Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
-