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From: sysop@tlvx.UUCP (SysOp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Their Finest Hour and Shark Attack
Summary: Games (of course)... golf and air combat
Message-ID: <332@tlvx.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jun 90 02:43:04 GMT
References: <3154@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
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In article <3154@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>, ewing@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (David Ewing) writes:
> 
> Are _Their Finest_Hour_ (the Battle of Britain game from Lucasfilms)
> and _Shark_Attack_ (Greg Norman's golf simulator from Melbourne
> House) out on the Amiga yet ?

Yes, on both counts.  I haven't seen the golf game running, but _Their
Finest_Hour_ seemed to work great on an Amiga 3000.  The airplane control was
sluggish, but not the frame rate.  We figured it must be sluggish due to
the simulation of a WW II plane, which wouldn't have the response of an
F-16, like the Jet games we're used to.  I dunno enough about it to
comment on it, but the A3000 is great for flight simulators.  :-)

(Note that the frame rate gets sped up, but not the game itself.  Apparently
SOME game companies are at least trying to Do It Right.  [See the discussions
about multitasking games on a nearby newsgroup.  Not that this game
multitasks, but hopefully it handles faster CPU's {I dunno if it does
or doesn't}.  It's a start. ;-])

You know, after the A3000 is released, it might be interesting to make a listing
of games that lists whether or not they multitask, and other such things.
(I'd like to see a listing of what will and won't run on the A3000 and non-68000
machines too, but the V2.0 OS question will have to wait.)  Meanwhile, I'm
very annoyed at games which won't run on my 68010.  I don't think there's any
excuse for a game not working with this CPU.  I don't think "because Commodore
never made a computer with one and therefore it's not supported" (which seemed
to be one person's opinion a while back) is valid, since if it breaks on the
'010, it'll break on the '020, '030, and future CPU's, if no other reason.
(And I can think of more! :-)  Anyway, I'd like to know which games will work
on my machine, because I'm not going to downgrade, just because of bad
programming habits.  Stop the madness now!  ;-)

As for making reviews, on rec.games.video, someone had some sort of review
program that automatically tallied people's votes, and printed a neato
listing.  (You send mail to an account, and it automatically tallies, I guess.)
> 
> 
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> Dave Ewing                      "Act like a dumbshit and they'll
> ewing@se-sd.sandiego.ncr.com     treat you like an equal."
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Gary "Sorry, I tend to ramble a bit.. but I do a good job of it" Wolfe
..uflorida!unf7!tlvx!sysop
Stop the madness!  Multitask before it's too late!