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- From: davereed@wam.umd.edu (Michael Robert Bromery)
- Subject: Re: Wing Commander Amiga (Public Note)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.171538.957@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:15:38 GMT
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- That's really wierd. Mine hardly dithers. You have roms 2.0 with at least
- workbench 2.04???? You sure you have more than 1 meg of memory?? 1.5 megs is
- what you will probably need with a hard drive. Perhaps you can contact
- Mindscape to find out whether they made changes. Perhaps, they didn't change
- the version number when they updated it. If you are running on a machine with
- at least those specks and you still see the 16-color version, I would try to
- contact them. You should only see that dithering if you have 1.x type Roms
- installed in your computer. Most of the time, the Wing Commander in front of
- me has smooth color transitions ala. Monkey Island 1. All I know is that they
- told me that it went through improvements before being released while I was
- waiting for my copy. At least 2 fullshipments went through Amigaman /
- Computer Basics at phone number: 1-800-258-0533 before I ordered mine.
- Mindscape stopped shipping the thing to them for a little while, mine came
- with the shipment that they finally released to them.
-
- Anyone who gets it from them should see exactly what I see. It was
- posted that the game originally used just 16-colors in leu of the A500, but
- they were to make improvements and support AGA machines for revisions on
- Wing Commander 1. They will not release a just 16-color version for
- Wing Commander 2, that'll be 32-color or better.
- Mindscape though should be able to accomodate you if you want to
- upgrade the thing. They probably wouldn't even charge you. Just tell them
- that the version you have only does 16-color while someone you know works
- in 32 with OS version 2.0 and up. Turn off your screen blankers firstand
- any other background jobbies like that first to make sure, try it again,
- if you still see the dithering, then you may want to give them a holler.
-
- About the music, I still don't know how you can not like it. But, it's
- a matter of personal taste I guess. Some people like Tom Petty, others like
- Michael Jackson and hate Tom Petty, some want only Metallica. Go figure.
- If you don't like the music on this version, you wouldn't like the
- Wing Commander music on any version. Some people don't go for the orchestral
- approach. Movie soundtrack lovers will get a kick out of it though.
-
-
-
- -- Hope this helps.
- --- Mike Bromery.
-
- P.S. -- If it is any consolation, the version they ship now to the stores
- probably couldn't have ben done better with 32 colors, that's why I praised the
- 32 color graphics so much, because Mindscape can do magic even with that
- limitation. Just like a few Sega games that come to mind.
-
-