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- From: sg7017095@v9001 (tomwoof)
- Subject: Re: Wing Commander Amiga
- Message-ID: <29DEC199210595849@v9001>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 02:59:00 GMT
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- In article <OA92-901-232_bba876c5@piraya.bad.se>, Mike_Noreen@arkham.bbs.bad.se (Mike Noreen) writes...
- >> I'd take high frame rate over high resolution in animation any time. Of
- >course,
- >> if you could get both, it would be great, but...
- >
- >Not that Wing Commander Amiga has got a high frame rate... Atleast not on my
- >A3000. And the resolution is so low, that it is hard to read the text on the
- >instruments in the cockpit.
- >As for resolution and framerates; I have a PD-game (offender) which runs 60
- >fps in hires-lace, and even on my old A500, there were lots of games with
- >higer framerate than WC (like, for instance, Pinball Dreams or Robocod) does
- >on my A3000 - and PinBall Dreams and Robocod had more colours.
- >WC could have been good. Even at its present sorry state, there is quite a bit
- >of feeling in it. It's just very badly programmed - in fact, it reminded me of
- >my old C64 so much I had to reinstall A64 and play Uridium for a while.
- WC Amiga is not badly programmed. It's just not well programmed enough.
- Then again, this is all personal opinion. For me, I think WC Amiga is
- very playable, and that's a very important point. However, I can't believe
- that the cut scenes actually look worse and execute more slowly than the
- horrible WC demo that was passed around some time ago. Faithful conversion
- is one thing, but enhancements or efforts to take advantage of a particular
- machine's strengths or coverups for its weaknesses will help the game's
- commercial appeal tremendously. Let's hope the AGA version of WC and future
- WCs from Mindscape do even better.
- >
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