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From: dean@coplex.UUCP (Dean Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: PD version of Star Trek, the Game
Keywords: Star trek, PD
Message-ID: <208@coplex.UUCP>
Date: 2 Nov 90 16:39:28 GMT
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Organization: Copper Electronics Inc.; Louisville, Ky
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kenward@fornax.UUCP (Kenward Chin) writes:

>Does anyone know if you can run the PD version of Star Trek (by Jimbo Barber)
>on a system with just one floppy?  I read in the latest Amiga World that this
>program, Star Trek: The Game is the _best_ new PD game around.

I respect the authors work on this project, and I am sure that he deserves
much more than $5.00/person in shareware fees, but this game is NOT anywhere
near the best PD game around.

The game runs slowly, you cannot control important elements of the game
(i.e. power consumption, course plotting, communications, etc.).  Basically,
you fly from one spot to another, occasionaly fighting an enemy Klingon.

I don't mean to flame, but I spent around $18.00 in transfer fees on
this huge program (the archive was over 1MEG), only to find that 400K
of the archive is a digitized sound sample (the intro), and that the
game wasn't really that interesting.  If you can get it for free, by
all means get it; if you must pay, dont bother.

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dean@coplex.UUCP   Dean A. Brooks
                   Copper Electronics, Inc.
                   Louisville, Ky
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