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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!psuvax1!psuvm!mbs110
- Organization: The Leader Desslok School of Diplomacy
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 23:47:48 EDT
- From: Norman St. John Polevaulter <MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <92232.234748MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
- Subject: Re: Wing Commander Demo
- References: <hribnak.0741@nucleus.cuc.ab.ca>
- <1992Aug18.214916.10448@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
- Lines: 27
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- In article <1992Aug18.214916.10448@sbcs.sunysb.edu>,
- hquijano@csws13.ic.sunysb.edu (Heidi Quijano) says:
- >I got a chance to see is also and HOLY DITHERING!!! Most of the time when you
- >see an IBM conversion, it's dithered in that ugly "MS-dithering" kinda way
- >but this is overkill! I don't even know why Origin is bothering with this
- >crap. Everything in the game was out of sync. The animation jerked back and
- >forth.
-
- I saw the preview of WC in one of the Euro-mags. The in-flight graphics did
- look like... well... I suppose "crap" is the most inoffensive way of putting
- it, but the article made great pains to emphasize that the graphics will be
- improved markedly. Whether or not this is true remains to be seen. (I won't
- buy in anyway, since I've already played and completed WC on an IBM... I
- wonder if the Origin-droids have taken this into account? WC has been out
- so long that a significant fraction of Amigans who might have bought it
- have ALREADY played it elsewhere!) So, perhaps releasing a demo with the
- ugly graphics was just carelessness. Incidentally I agree with you about
- dithering... look, would it *kill* them to use solid colors once or twice??
-
- Anyway, I'm not going to get my hopes up for Wing Commander. MANTIS from
- Microprose and ELITE II sound like real competition for Wing Commander, and
- better on Amiga. 'Course I thought the same about Epic and look what
- happened...
-
- [Your blood pressure just went up.] Mark Sachs IS: mbs110@psuvm.psu.edu
- DISCLAIMER: If it ain't money, Penn State doesn't care about it.
- "Ladies and gentlemen, I've suffered for my music! Now it's your turn!"
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