NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/sys/amiga/games/12535

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From: [e-mail] (Chris Clarizio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Sierra vs Dyanmix (1)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 6 Sep 92 18:02:40 GMT
References: <[e-mail]>
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
writes:
>
>I just played Adventures of Willy Beamish on an unaccelerated A500.  Now,
>the graphics and sound seemed very nice, but the speed was just awful.
>Was this just a bad port?  Or are all their games like this?
>(I'm mean very slow on an unaccelerated Amiga.)  BTW, I played the game off
>of a Quantum LPS hardrive attached to the Amiga 500 via a Grandslam with
>2 megs inside.  Also the A500 had a 1 meg agnus (chip ram).

   I have found every Sierra game that is ported to the Amiga to be exactly the
way you describe Willie Beamish. I have decided not to purchase any more Sierra
games unless I have a thorough test drive first. It is as if the IBM version is
ported to run on the 68000, and ignore the other processors. This ridiculous,
but in Robin Hood, when 5 characters on screen start to walk off screen, they
do so one at a time. I think this is to keep the display from slowing down when
(heaven forbid) 5 things move at once.
   From what I've seen (they send InterAction magazine to me for buying their
games) the general opinion of Sierra, even to their IBM users, is that if the
game is slow, buy a bigger faster machine. I think this stinks.


                                             --- Chris Clarizio
                                                 [e-mail]