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Re: LemminGS?

 >    It is a port (by Brutal Deluxe) of the popular game Lemmings, from
 >Psygnosis.

Nit-pick Alert:

I don't think the word "port" is quite accurate. To my way of thinking, a
port is when source code is transfered from one platform to another and
tweaked to run on the second platform. As an example, Burger Bill created
Out Of This World for the Super Nintendo using the C language. To create
the IIGS version, he transfered his C code onto the IIGS, made whatever
changes were needed in order to address the GS video, and then re-complied
it as GS code. That's a "port."

On the other hand, Brutal Deluxe wrote from scratch all 26,000 lines of
assembly code that comprise Brutal Deluxe's LemminGS. 

End Nit-pick Alert ;-)

Joe
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