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From: gilmore@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Neil Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: M1 Tank Platoon, and sound quality
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Date: 20 Oct 90 12:26:46 GMT
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In article <1990Oct19.152405.7791@cbnews.att.com>, wbt@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) writes...

>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.)

I had no problems running the install from the CLI (even though I don't 
have a hard disk, go figure). The game runs from CLI if you use the 
LAUNCH. I haven't tried just running it. If you have 3 megs of ram, I 
suggest hacking up the startup-sequence to load the whole shebang into 
ram:, it makes the game just bearably quick enough to play. We had 
started playing it from floppy, but that was quickly abandoned as 
glacial.

As for its difficulty, one guy racked up 72 kills the first day he 
played (in one game). I'm not nearly that good.

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