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From: dgil@pa.reuter.COM (Dave Gillett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Recommendations for Vette! or Harpoon
Message-ID: <504@saxony.pa.reuter.COM>
Date: 24 Oct 90 19:44:13 GMT
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I have Harpoon 1.1 for the PC, and I love it despite its warts.

The concept is well thought out and reasonably executed.  My complaints are
mostly about details, with a few bugs thrown in.

The single worst feature is the manual, which explains all of the keystrokes/
commands without ever telling you how to play the game!  Most of it can be
figured out in a month or two (yes, it can hold *my* interest that long; your
milage may vary).

It's both a memory hog (less of a problem on Macs, with no "640K barrier" to
deal with) and a disk hog (disk caching is a big help) -- oh, and it's also a
CPU hog.  Commercial packages (word processors, etc.) this big are more often
$400 than $40, so I can't say it's overpriced.

There's plenty of room for improvement, but I don't think it has any serious
competition at this point....
                                               Dave

(I'm interested in corresponding with other Harpoon players, btw....)