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- From: s914534@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (UT)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
- Subject: Re: Wing Commander Amiga (Public Note)
- Message-ID: <1jonbaINN27r@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 11:55:22 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.215917.883@wam.umd.edu> <1993Jan21.043754.18187@iti.gov.sg> <C18Jtp.8sB@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- rlt20429@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Robert L. Thomas) writes:
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-
- >Chuckle, 386 at 16mhz? Well standard mhz is 33 now and thats almost to fast
- >for it. I have a 66mhz and had to turn off my cache to get a chance to play
- >it. While I agree that amiga is a better machine on paper then the ibm types
- >time for the amiga is/has run out.
-
- Not until everyone wants to play only large simulations.
-
- Before you buy that 1200 perhaps you
- >should think about the future of commadore. I bailed out because I had
- >no desire to have to mail order my games from europe in a few more years.
-
- No problem if you live in Europe
-
- >Also point two is that wing commander is OLD for the ibm, think its been at
- >least a year since its release, and civilization is the same. I for one got
- >sick of waiting to see if they would make an 'amiga version'. If you want to
- >see state of the art (well almost its old too) try wing commander II on a
- >486 - whatever. Smooth, great graphics (much better then on one) better
- >game play, and the sound is fantastic with a soundblaster (aprox $85 for that)
- >now the question is will they make THAT one for amiga, and for that matter
-
- Funny how it was criticized for being too similar to the original. I've got
- both on the pc and really, there is hardly a huge technological jump between
- the two
-
- >will they make privateer (the new game from the WC series) EVER for the
- >amiga, and will it be in 2 years, long after it has gathered dust on the
- >ibm users shelves?
- >RT
-
- Will we ever see a decent arcade type game (ie involving sprites) on the pc?
- Will we ever see a decent demo on the pc? (not until everyone has a hugely
- expensive, fast and I mean /fast/ graphics card)
-
- >(anyone want to buy a 2000?)
-
- I'll take the 1200 thanks.
-
- Really, I don't see the point of these 'you should dump your amiga cause I've
- got a pc and I like it' posts, along with some crap about 'they will never
- make this game on the amiga'. They said that about WIng Commander 1.
- You could have made this post one line - dump your amiga for the pc.
- That way we wouldn't had to have read all this drivel - could have simply
- told you to fuck off. Not interested. Don't care.
-