Why do so many games have either MUSIC or FX but not both?

[dougal]

I've always noticed this in many Amiga games , like for example Zool and Lotus ...

U can only have MUSIC or else sound FX but not both .

So i always end up choosing music coz i love the music in so many games , but end up missing on the sound effects.

[dougal]

Dr.Bongo wrote:
That would be because there's only 4 'real' sound channels at a guess. Hence why Xenon 2 cuts out the drums for the gunfire.

If it wasn`t for lack of memory / cpu usage I'm sure programmers could have done an octaMED type thing and created artificial channels.

Feel free to correct me...............

Thanks .. I always wondered but never really asked before :-P