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From: hounsell@chekov.UU.NET (Rob Hounsell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: M1 Tank Platoon, and sound quality
Keywords: Tank sound
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Date: 15 Oct 90 21:36:59 GMT
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  I picked up M1 Abrams Tank Platoon (Microprose) last week. I had been waiting
for 6 months for them to port it to the Amiga.

  It's fun, and definitely has its good points. However, I was disappointed
with the quality of the sound effects that went into it. Almost all sound
effects (tracks squeaking, turret motors, etc.) are "simulated" using simple
sounds. Heck, even Arctic Fox had what seemed like digitized samples of treads
creaking, motors, etc.

  Granted, maybe they just didn't have the room (you have to disconnect the
external drive if you have a 512K machine).

  I'll have to play it some more to get a better feel for it, and report later.
Anyone else tried it out??

  B.T.W. I'm running a LUCAS board (no expanded memory yet) at 16MHz.

Rob

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