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- From: gunnbr@nextwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu. (Brian R Gunn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
- Subject: Re: Wing Commander flames and fun
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 20:11:56 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman
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- In comp.sys.amiga.games article <C1E8vx.Ixw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> you wrote:
- > 1. I don't care if C= come out with a $50 60mhz super machine, they
- could'nt
- > sell it if their lives depended on it. After I don't remember how many
- years
- > of poor to shit advertizing I doubt that it will get much better (when did
- > the 1000 come out anyways ?) I was a 'loyal' commodore owner since the c64
- > but finaly had enough.
-
- Well, they're getting better. Commodore DOES advertise, just probably in no
- magazine that you would read.
-
- > 2. If I want to play a nice arcade type game I'll by a sega for $100, who
- > cares if pc games don't use sprites? The day of the blasto gamo is dead for
- > PC's (note this for all personal comps, not just ibm types)
-
- I have my Amiga so I can play games if I want to, but it's also the most
- productive machine I have EVER used (well, maybe not--NeXT is in there
- somewhere, but they've got even worse support than the Amiga.)
-
- > 3. Yes the missions are ok but lets face its, WC for the amiga is not as
- good
- > as the ibm version. The letters claiming otherwise are quite silly. Just
- read
- > all the posts about the game. Hell play both versions.
-
- Who cares???
-
- > 4. This was my favorite btw... Yes when I play WC I have to turn off my
- cache
- > to get it to run slow enough to play, this is not bad about IBM's this just
- > means that origin made a goof. They did'nt think of the potential increases
- > in the adverage ibm owners speed, in wing commander II this has been fixed.
-
- Guess what??? On the Amiga 4000, I have to turn off the caches to play WC
- (because of the speed, not because of compatibility) !!!
-
- > 5. They won't start making AGA games until there are enough AGA machines
- out t there. There are few enough Amigas out there, the last thing a software
- > producer wants to do is make it smaller.
-
- Well, everwhere I called can not keep the 1200 in stock--they are selling VERY
- rapidly.
-
- > 6. Last but not least how many software producers have done the old drop
- kick
- > on the amiga? How many new titles come out a month? Well after you think
- > on that answer for a while it might explain the hostile attitude I recived.
- > A cornered animal becomes vicious, and so do cornered computer owners.
-
- Many new titles come out. The companies that drop out are those who don't
- feel the need to take advantage of the Amiga and thus cause no one to buy
- their games (Sierra for example...)
-
- Brian
-