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flightlessvacuum's last words before the Sword of Azrial plunged through
his body were:
> K.os wrote:
>> flightlessvacuum@lycos.com wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> Yea thanks,
>>> Looks like it has been added finally but judging by the screenshots it
>>> seems to be heavily based on the amiga version (yuck).
>> You do know that it is not, emphatically not, based on any version other
>> than the arcade version. Now if the Amiga version was very similar to the
>> Arcade version I can understand why you'd think that, but the fact remains
>> that no game in MAME is based on anything but the Arcade original.
> Have a look here:
>
http://caesar.logiqx.com/html/emus/multi/mame/ar_ldrba.shtml
> It was even produced with the Commodore AMIGA computer so I would say
> it would be very similar, also the arcade version came after the home
> computer versions and not vice versa.
K.os is saying that the version in MAME wasnt something hacked together
from the Amiga version by the dev team, but actually a dump of the
original arcade machine. Whether or not the original Leaderboard
developers simply did a port for arcade from Amiga or vice versa is a
whole nother story.