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Daedalus · 24 November 2016, 10:22

Theme Park has a hard drive installer - I remember playing it just fine from the hard drive years ago, though it needed more RAM unless you booted without a startup-sequence and ran it from the shell. Big parks got pretty slow on the basic A1200 (the speed menu has an item marked A4000 only because of that), but once you had any sort of accelerator and some fast RAM it ran perfectly fine, and it was good to have a dedicated AGA version, which is what Syndicate should have had. Part of the reason Syndicate lacks detail in comparison to the PC is that it was made to work on a 1MB A500 - there'd be plenty more animation possible on a 1200 and more colours, though perhaps not the higher resolution.

24 November 2016, 10:22	#17
Daedalus Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Dublin, then Glasgow Posts: 6,348	Theme Park has a hard drive installer - I remember playing it just fine from the hard drive years ago, though it needed more RAM unless you booted without a startup-sequence and ran it from the shell. Big parks got pretty slow on the basic A1200 (the speed menu has an item marked A4000 only because of that), but once you had any sort of accelerator and some fast RAM it ran perfectly fine, and it was good to have a dedicated AGA version, which is what Syndicate should have had. Part of the reason Syndicate lacks detail in comparison to the PC is that it was made to work on a 1MB A500 - there'd be plenty more animation possible on a 1200 and more colours, though perhaps not the higher resolution.