They could have had the local am dram society do it for free, for some publicity and a mention in the credits. You can get lots of things for free if you're inventive.
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Just install it to your HDD, otherwise you get mad with swapping.
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So true. If ever a genre was always destined for HD it was the adventure game.

I still remember all the disk swaps for the larger advanture games. I had a system setup with 3 external disk drives, so could have 4 disks in the drives at any one time, but I still had to swap them loads of times. I was so happy when I got my first HD.
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I never got a HD for the Amiga, I also had several extrenal floppy drives, but when playing Fate of Atlantis f.ex., I had to swap anyways.
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One thing that always really annoyed me what when the developers of the games had done something very strange with the order of the files on the disks. So often a game would ask for a disk that seemed quite random. For example if you were playing through the the game and were currently using disks 3, 4 and 5, when suddenly the game asks you for disk 11, you swap them over, it access disk 11, reads it for about 3 seconds and then asks for disk 4 again! Aghhh!
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BASS was very good at asking for random disks as was STS. The strangest HD install i ever had was for Final Writer. You start at disk 1 and then you have to insert disk 6,7,8 & 9 then go back to disk 2, 3, 4 and 5 and finish off on disk 1 again.
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Oh, I've had some very odd HD installs over the years. Some on the PC have been just as odd too. Some recent PC games have been just as bad. I have one game on 6 CDs and it kept asking for the discs in a completely out of sequence order, and for each one more than once. Very odd. Especially as you would think that the majority of a game install is just involving the copying of files from the discs to the HD.
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That's true. When I got my Amiga 1200 last year, I installed it to HD, and I found it very strange that you had to insert the discs in that order.
That was also exactly what happened in Fate of Atlantis, drove me mad.
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[Use Orichalcum detector]
INSERT DISK 5
INSERT DISK 7
INSERT DISK 5
"Nope, nothing here"

[Kidney-punch developers] etc
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And how about the latest Sierra adventure games for Amiga?

Insert StartUp-Disk
Insert Disk 1
Insert StartUp-Disk
Insert Disk 1
Insert StartUp-Disk
Insert Disk 1
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and this is endless of course...
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