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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!caen!nic.umass.edu!dime!barrett
  2. From: barrett@snoopy.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
  4. Subject: Re: Lode Runner!!! For Amiga?
  5. Keywords: LodeRunner
  6. Message-ID: <52270@dime.cs.umass.edu>
  7. Date: 22 Aug 92 01:58:28 GMT
  8. References: <Who.1@Im.Lost.Somewhere> <1992Aug21.034950.26451@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au> <crystal.714419591@glia> <52253@dime.cs.umass.edu> <1992Aug21.204655.19472@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
  9. Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu
  10. Reply-To: barrett@snoopy.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
  11. Organization: BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED
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  13.  
  14. I wrote:
  15. [Talking about MotherLode]
  16. >>    Unfortunately, it does not work properly on accelerated Amigas
  17. >>(68030, etc.)  It runs much too fast to be playable.
  18.  
  19. In article <1992Aug21.204655.19472@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung) writes:
  20. >I could be wrong on this one... but what exactly do you mean it
  21. >doesn't run properly on an accelerated Amiga?  It runs on my A2000+020 
  22. >just fine... but then, I didn't spend much time playing it...
  23.  
  24.     I mean that the game runs too fast.  On my 68000 Amiga, it was
  25. very playable.  On my 68030 Amiga (6 times the speed of the 68000),
  26. the game ran 6 times as fast!  It was impossible to control the game
  27. with any accuracy.
  28.  
  29.                                                         Dan
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  32. | Dan Barrett -- Dept of Computer Science, Lederle Graduate Research Center |
  33. | University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA  01003  --  barrett@cs.umass.edu |
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