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pfle...@scu.edu.au (Nightfox) writes:
>: >What Origin game that has been advertised as being playable from cd hasn't
>: >been? I've played WC2, Strike Commander, Privateer, Ultima Underworlds 1 +2,
>: >and they've all been perfectly playable on a single speed CD rom drive.
>: 	Strike Commander running perfectly from a SINGLE speed drive?
>: 	Did you run it with the barest minimum HD installation?

>Last night I set my CD-ROM drive onto single spin mode, inserted the
>Privateer/Strike Commander CD in the drive, installed Strike commander with
>the minimum installation. I played the first two missions, I had absolutely
>no complaints. The time to load the mission at the start was a little
>longer, but if I only had a single spin CD-ROM drive, and only had 1.4 meg
>to spare on the HD, I would play Strike CD, no worries.
>So far Origin have done well with getting games that are supposed to be
>playable from CD, to play well from them.
>I haven't played Armada CD, or ShadowCaster CD.

	Ok - so I was wrong with SC CD.  Then again I did say at the very start
(all those postings ago) that SC CD was a vast improvement over SC.  I just did
not know HOW vast this was. :-)
	As for Armada... it would not be much different I think... their VGA
engine seems good enough, and what's out in space to watch except for a black
background with white specs of light 90% of the time? :-)  Thanks for the info,
by the way.  I stand corrected.
	Shadow Caster would be an interesting one to find out.  Anyone out there
find that this game could not be played from a CD with minimum installation?


							- Falcon