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From: billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Space Taxi
Message-ID: <1990Oct23.212631.19746@agora.uucp>
Date: 23 Oct 90 21:26:31 GMT
References: <901021.214650.CDT.C503719@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU>
Organization: Open Communication Forum
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In article <901021.214650.CDT.C503719@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU> C503719@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU (Baird McIntosh) writes:
:In Message-ID: <1990Oct16.224159.29044@agora.uucp>
:
:One has to wonder, however, if some of the 'magic' of the game might be lost
:in an Amiga translation.  If the digitized voices in the C64 version were
:fixed up (i.e. made clearer) it might be for the worse.  The rough sounding
:sampled voices and the tinny 'bee bee beep oo beep' between levels couldn't
:be changed too drastically, I feel.  I'm not saying they couldn't expand and
:improve the sounds in the game, but they should use synthesized instruments
:for the music, rather than digitized ones.  There are Amiga users who would
:disagree with my sound opinions (no pun intended).  But, oh well.

	Actually, I agree that part of the Space Taxi experience is the
wonderful 'computer' sounding speech samples. With a coarse enough sample
and a slow enough playback, you could make an Amiga sound right. Although,
the music should definately be a good synthesized set of instruments.

:The Space Taxi graphics could easily be smoothed and made more colorful
:without loosing the ST magic.  Include all the original game'e levels,
:options, etc... plus add a level editor, hard disk support, multitasking
:support, accelerated Amiga support, 2.0 support,...

	Here's where the Amiga version should really shine. Very smooth
movement, enough more colors to clean up all edges, significantly more
levels, finer control on the ship, etc... I don't know whether multitasking
support is really necessary for this type of game though. Maybe a method
to get back to your typical workbench environment while the game is paused.
A level editor would be a tough nut... Providing support for custom
background images is simple enough, but deciding what is a surface and what
is background would be more difficult. Definately hard disk installable!

:Someone put this post on Plink!  :-)

	No problem, I'll put it up tomorrow or the next day...

:| Baird McIntosh | c503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu <-or-> c503719@umcvmb.bitnet |
:| COOL DRIVING TECHNIQUE #23: Drive without brake lights.                   |
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