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From: jcfst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (John C. Fossum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Wing Commander.
Message-ID: <51092@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 20 Oct 90 03:31:15 GMT
References: <1196@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU>
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.games
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Computing & Information Services
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In article <1196@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU>, 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.

     Only a 386 and an AdLib compatible card?!; which actually means the
game is only really enjoyable to that 15% of the IBM PC population that
own both of these. The game creeps on other machines and if I'm not
mistaken, needs a high density drive to read the damn disks. This   
product development is almost as intelligent as making a game that only
runs in 68000 mode!

> 
> This must be the first cool game for the IBM.  Boy Amiga programmers better 
> get their ass in gear coz this game is hot.		
> 
> ps:  When is it coming out for the Amiga, and it better be good.

     When it comes out for the Amiga, it better not tell me to go out
and buy an accelerator, a 100 meg hard drive (since the thing takes up
so much room; I think 11 floppies uncompressed), or anything else
that doesn't comply with the immediate Amiga consumer. Sure, the game
looks pretty and alll, but wait another year or so until release, until
the PC market has caught up technologically as a whole instead of
letting a select few enjoy. I'm sure someone could develop a really
extremely decent game for one of those 24-bit, 16 million color
cards that are being developed for the Amiga, but I'm pretty sure you
won't see it in the immediate future. Appeal to the masses, you'll
stay in business. Appeal to the few, and we'll lose another developer.

-Steve M. Suhy-