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From: fhwri%CONNCOLL.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:  688 Attack Sub: Why not modem support?
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Date: 23 Oct 90 02:16:21 GMT
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At the store where I (sometimes) work, we had the same question about no
modem play on 688 Attack Sub. So we called EA. They gave us a song & dance
about how modem play was impossible on the Amiga (and they sell POPULOUS!)
and we concluded that the programmers who ported it were an ignorant bunch
of f*rts. Not that it was as poorly ported as STARFLIGHT was--Micro Magic,
who did the STARFLIGHT port (and also does Amiga ports for Origin--remember
ULTIMA III, which didn't reset the turn # when all your guys died?), don't
know (apparently) how to program on the Amiga; their games, which do work,
don't multitask and use the Workbench screen to hide bitplanes they're
not using. I told EA to find these guys another line of work--like Mac
ports...
                                                --Rick Wrigley
                                                fhwri@conncoll.bitnet