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- From: colas@opossum.inria.fr (Colas Nahaboo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
- Subject: Re: Wing Commander Amiga
- Message-ID: <37186@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 08:31:50 GMT
- References: <Steven_Hurdle.00t9@amusers.UUCP>
- Sender: news@sophia.inria.fr
- Organization: Koala Project, Bull Research France
- Lines: 37
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- In article <Steven_Hurdle.00t9@amusers.UUCP>, Steven_Hurdle@amusers.UUCP (Steven
- Hurdle) writes:
- > You're wrong. Origin is, as of the last time they stated anything
- > publically, making Amiga games. They've announced that Wing Commander 2
- > (ECS) is on the way that that Wing Commander (AGA) isn't far behind.
-
- Great!!!
- Granted, the amiga version of wing commander is not on par with the IBM
- version.
- A friend bought a 486 33 Mhz with graphic card on a local bus (that means fast
- 32bit graphic access), and he has to turn off all caches (making his machine 4
- times slower to play WCII, otherwise it is too fast!), this on a machine
- cheaper than my A500 + A530.
-
- SO: WC amiga is MUCH uglier than WC PC.
- BUT:
- 1) it is a start, I think mindscape should be encouraged to get better ports
- 2) the playability is there. I'd rather play WC in 16 color than nova9 in 64
- colors. If you want nice amiga games, play warhead and trexwarrior
- 3) it seems that the only programmer was seriously ill for 3 (?) months (a
- meningitis?), so they were in a rush.
- 4) May be they just converted straightforwardly the PC-EGA version? that would
- explain the 16 colors (and the utter dowgrading of the cut-scenes graphics
- from the summer demo)
-
- So, I bought it, and I am going to write them to tell them (mindscape & origin)
- 1) thank you for supporting the amiga.
- 2) it would be nice to have better graphics (64 EHB mode?), but if they make an
- AGA version, fine!
- 3) I would like ALL the bells and whistles of the PC version (keyboard
- shortcuts, analog joystick)
- 4) even on a digital joystick, they could make use of 2 buttons (or even 4,
- just like FlashBack). now the use of only one button is a bit clumsy.
-
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