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- From: Steven_Hurdle@amusers.UUCP (Steven Hurdle)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
- Subject: Re: Wing Commander Amiga
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <Steven_Hurdle.00t5@amusers.UUCP>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 01:48:59 PST
- Organization: AmUsers - The Amiga Users Group of Victoria BC
- Lines: 55
-
- In a message dated Thu 24 Dec 92 6:51, Cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (shuk C Yip
- wrote:
-
- CCY> In article <72171@cup.portal.com> RayTrace@cup.portal.com (Ray
- CCY> William Kulberda) writes:
- >From what I've heard Wing Commander Amiga is just as fast as the IBM
- version
-
- CCY> Certainly, 16 colors is a lot faster than 256 colors.
-
- Is it 16 or is it 32? No matter, it is what it is and the screen-shots
- look quite promising. My local stockist has it on order from the U.K. and
- it should hopefully be here soon.
-
- >and has GREAT music. But in one Euro-Mag they said the graphics were good
- >but there was noticeable crosshatching. I've been playing it on an IBM
- and
-
- CCY> HA,HA... I think this magazine must be THE ONE. Mindscape paid them
- CCY> the
- CCY> money. As I mentioned before, how can WINGS COMMANDER in 16 colors
- CCY> can
- CCY> get much higher marks in review (above 90%) than NOVA 9 in 64 + HAM.
- CCY> (only 53%). Remember, they also rated LINKS at around 53%.
-
- Maybe because Wing Commander might be a good game and Nova 9 was an
- attractive game that lacked much in the way of playability? If colour was
- the only deciding factor, Pioneer Plague (the first HAM game) would still
- be touted as the best of all time.
-
- >I would mind loosing some of the graphics quality for the speed of my
- A3000
- >(and sound too!!). So I guess it's out then? for the amiga.
-
- CCY> You will loose MUCH MUCH MUCH graphics detail than IBM version. Take
- CCY> a
- CCY> look at WINGS COMMANDER demo before you invest any money.
-
- What do you mean? Yes, you lose some colour and they dither to make up for
- it. Why should you lose detail? The Amiga's an animation machine and by
- rights it should go much faster, even when handling more detail, than a
- comparable Beemer. Any game coded to any degree of quality does!
-
- You sound much like a person we have here in Victoria, by the name of
- Don Moorcroft. He, in turn, sounds like an even more extremist version of
- Marc Barret. <shudder> Everyone in netland, be thankful you're out of his
- earshot and that he doesn't follow the nets! :)
-
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