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John Sabean (doc...@eng.umd.edu) wrote:

: In article <38ep3g$5...@adam.cc.sunysb.edu>, fw...@cs.sunysb.edu (.) writes:
: >I was watching some show called 'The computer man' and they had an origin 
: >story, and Origin said they shipped their very last Floppy Disk game!  All
: >their games are going to be Cd-only forever!  Bwa ha ha haaaaaaaa.
: Its sort of silly from a user standpoint, seeing as the game is only 13 megs
: in size. It doesn't NEED to be CD-only yet it is now. Seeing as there are only a few
: boring animation sequences, I'm suprised they didn't add more
: if they had the extra disk space....

I havn't read the official Origin reasoning behind this, but there are more
reasons than just space for releasing things only on CD.  Even though a game
can be distributed on floppy's, it doesn't mean that having it on CD isn't
handy.  One example for me is X-COM.  I've got a bunch of games floating
around, and not enough room to install every one.  However, X-COM on CD
doesn't install the whole thing to the hard drive and, since it's a
strategy game, it doesn't suffer from lag time.

In the case of Origin, I have Wing Commander I and II on CD and have only
played them off CD.  Other than the lag between intro and fight sequences,
I think the game does quite well and I'm glad I don't have to install all
30 meg to my system.

Personally, I won't buy games on diskettes anymore.  Even if the only thing
the CD does is install the game to my harddisk, I still prefer it since then
I can delete the game for a while, and reinstalling it is a very painless
process.
-- 
A wise man once said that the only road to true enlightenment was through
failure.

Patrick Deupree
Iseult Technology
pdeu...@netcom.com