Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!cbnews!wbt
From: wbt@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker)
Subject: Re: M1 Tank Platoon, and sound quality
Organization: AT&T Network Systems - Columbus, Ohio
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 90 15:24:05 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Oct19.152405.7791@cbnews.att.com>
References: <901011.170932.CDT.C503719@UMCVMB> <3461@bnr-rsc.UUCP>
Keywords: Tank sound
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In article <3461@bnr-rsc.UUCP>, hounsell@chekov.UU.NET (Rob Hounsell) writes:
> 
> 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.

Upon reading this I rushed to my dealer and bought a copy last night.

>   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.

Quite agreed!   Plus, the game comes with a keyboard for the A2000 that 
doesn't fit.   But the sound effects are really unforgiveable.  For that
matter, the visual effects (explosions and gunfire) are nothing to write
home (or Usenet 8-) about, either.  

Tactically, though, it looks great, and I have a feeling I'll blow
many hours behind the gunsights on this one.

In an out-and-out splurge of gratuitious gaming gluttony, I also picked up
Wings.  At first glance, I was disappointed, but it's not as easy as it
looks.  I was pleased that the game would return cleanly to workbench,
and displeased that the hard-disk install script was so buggy.  (It
tries to create ram:T as a working directory... if you (like I) already
*have* that directory, you're hosed, the script fails, etc.  Further,
the silly thing can't be executed from CLI, apparently, so I had to load
Workbench just to get the silly thing going.  Haven't tried to run the game
itself from CLI yet.)

M1 Tank Platoon, at least, is fully accessible from CLI.  It, too, installs
on a hard disk.  I haven't exited yet so I can't tell you if it does so 
cleanly. 8-)

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