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From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Solarian II
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Date: 20 Sep 90 12:18:57 GMT
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In-reply-to: cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz)

In article <1990Sep19.173343.7360@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, cmm1@cunixa (Christopher M Mauritz) writes:
>I grabbed the Solarian II file from Sumex today and tried to run it.
>However, it tells me that I need color or 256 gray shades mode.  I
>have a Mac IIcx with an E-Machines Big Picture monitor.  Am I 
>basically out of luck?

Yup, it only works in color or gray scale.  And as the owner of a gray
scale display, let me say that it looks pretty sad in shades of gray...

From a programming standpoint, you can't do color table animation on a
monochrome display, and it appears that at least some of the animation
is done that way.

Solarian is one of the most beautiful arcade games I've ever seen.
The character animation reminds me of the old Williams arcade games
like Defender, Stargate and Robotron, where lots of different colors
are used in each character, giving the characters themselves a very
high-rez look.

If you're a Mac dealer, you want Solarian running on your Apple RGB
displays...  I think it alone would sell more than Persuasion,
Powerpoint and PixelPaint combined.

Now if only I could convince myself that I really *needed* a color
monitor....   ;-)

(By the way, folks, if you play Solarian a lot, please send Ben a
check.  We'll be *very* lucky if he decides to write another game, and
I'm sure those $25 checks can be persuasive...)

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