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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: New Games
Keywords: IIgs games
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Date: 12 Oct 90 20:16:43 GMT
References: <1990Oct12.082105.2804@wrkof.incom.de>
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In article <1990Oct12.082105.2804@wrkof.incom.de> spock@wrkof.incom.de (Martin Georg) writes:
>2) Windwalker:
>Does anyone know the good old game "Moebius"??? Now it appears again under
>the name "Windwalker" on the IIgs. Basically a Kung-Fu game like Karateka
>or "The last Ninja". The graphics look like beeing converted from DHGR,
>but are actually SHR. In addition, the game is a little bit slow, even on
>a tranwarped IIgs. Sound is limited. Test it before buying, its only good
>for fans of that genre...

	This game really is a stinker in my opinion. Can you say S-L-O-W??
It's right down there on par with the bottom of the barrel like Gauntlet
GS! I imagine that even with an accellerator it woud be really slow (like
you said)..

	The way you fought was kind of neat but even that was slow...

	I REALLY think people should look at this before they buy it... I
hope this does not foreshadow the kind of stuff (if any) from Origin we're
going to be getting from now on? Like if Ultima V and VI GS are this bad?
(KEEP WRITING TO ORIGIN FOR Ultima V and VI GS, and Ultima VI //e if you
don't have a GS.. Even if you don't have a GS please please ask for a GS
version ALSO).

.3) Halls of Montezuma:
.Now true wargaming is coming on the IIgs. The Strategic Studies GRoup re-
.leased their first wargame for the IIgs. Build after their famous "Battle-
.front" it is a must for every serious wargamer. Superb display of maps,
.units and objects, A pixel-oriented "WarPaint" iconeditor, a execellent
.scenario designer and all good optiones (and more) from the Original
."Battlefront" - and all that together with a user-friendly "point-and-
.klick" mouse-Interface (run in 320er mode on the IIgs). Without a Trans-
.warp GS a little bit slow. A harddisk is highly recommended. On a 1Meg
.machine with one disk drive you have to be a true disk-jockey.

	This looked like it might be fun for a person who really likes
wargames, but I would like to repeat some of what the person I'm replying
to said and say some more.

	It was pretty slow..

	But also, it seemed like an amateurish effort! There were really
weird things happening with the fonts.. Like in the "About" box (or maybe
some regular window they brought up), they used a pretty big font that was just
an enlarging of some smaller font I think. It was really jaggy and I think
even went outside of the window it was shown in or was formatted really
weirdly or something.. I guess that could be called a minor flaw, but it
really looked bad in my opinion.  Things didn't look right in other parts of
the program too.

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