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From: griffith@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Michael Griffith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Wing Leader
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Date: 18 Oct 90 08:19:07 GMT
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bjames@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (Binoy James [890904]) writes:

>Folks,

>Have any of you seen Wing Commnader on the IBM.  You need a 386, VGA and a 
>Soundblaster/Adlib card to play it, but boy does it play.

"Wing Leader" I believe.

>This must be the first cool game for the IBM.  Boy Amiga programmers better 
>get their ass in gear coz this game is hot.		

--SIGH-- They won't be able to match the graphics, 'cause we can't get 256
colors on screen in a highly animatable (is this a real word?) fashion. Just
another example of how Commodore had better get it's rear end in gear with
respect to higher end graphics. (I sure as h*ll don't want to end up writing
assembly code for Intel 80x86 chips...)

>Check it out.
>Bin

>ps:  When is it coming out for the Amiga, and it better be good.

I'm not aware of any plans to release an Amiga version. Any game that limits
itself in respect to what hardware must be owned may also end up restricting
the machine it is released on (besides, the Amiga market just doesn't count
that much, while VGA is becoming fairly common on IBM systems). I feel like
a prophet of doom or something, but I _do_ believe that Commodore must really
stress advancement if it is to catch up with the rest of the market. (And
hopefully that's exactly what they are doing. I mean, c'mon, we know they're
capable of it, right?)


| Michael Griffith                     | If I had an opinion it certainly   |
| griffith@eecs.ee.pdx.edu             | wouldn't be the same one as        |
| ...!tektronix!psueea!eecs!griffith   | Portland State University anyways. |