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Megalomaniac · 12 February 2024, 12:33

Looking at review dates, ST Lemmings was a good four months after the Amiga version, which suggests that they started it pretty quickly afterwards, having to scale the graphics down to 16 colours, redo all the sounds (they're not all in the ST version, including the clump-clump of the builder placing blocks, but cleverly they make the disc drive light flash on the last three, as a warning that you're running out) and the reading of control inputs. It was actually converted by Brian Watson who I don't think was a DMA Design employee, but the same guy as did the ST version of Menace, which was pretty poor, to the point that he essentially apologised for it in ST Format magazine. Lemmings being bundled with the Amiga might help with the perception of it as a symbolic representation of the Amiga, but to me it symbolised everything great about the era.

12 February 2024, 12:33	#87
Megalomaniac Registered User Join Date: Sep 2022 Location: Eastbourne Posts: 1,055	Looking at review dates, ST Lemmings was a good four months after the Amiga version, which suggests that they started it pretty quickly afterwards, having to scale the graphics down to 16 colours, redo all the sounds (they're not all in the ST version, including the clump-clump of the builder placing blocks, but cleverly they make the disc drive light flash on the last three, as a warning that you're running out) and the reading of control inputs. It was actually converted by Brian Watson who I don't think was a DMA Design employee, but the same guy as did the ST version of Menace, which was pretty poor, to the point that he essentially apologised for it in ST Format magazine. Lemmings being bundled with the Amiga might help with the perception of it as a symbolic representation of the Amiga, but to me it symbolised everything great about the era.