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From: conty@cbnewsl.att.com (enrique.conty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Starflight recommendation?
Message-ID: <1990Nov6.152814.19031@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 6 Nov 90 15:28:14 GMT
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In article <1990Nov6.102830.15614@cs.uoregon.edu>, mkelly@cs.uoregon.edu (Michael A. Kelly) writes:
> 
> I bought Starflight a couple weeks ago.  I haven't really had a chance to
> play with it much, but what I've seen so far doesn't impress me.  The
> graphics are designed for a far inferior machine (it was originally written
> for Commodore or Atari and has been translated to the Mac).

Actually, it is one of them MicroMagic ports cloning the IBM EGA version of
the game.  You're right about the horrid quality of the graphics, though.
I'd recommend Space Rogue instead.

> The
> interface could be improved quite a bit.  The worst problem is that if you
> click the mouse anywhere outside a button a system error (bus error, I think)
> occurs.  That can get _VERY_ annoying.

That never happened to me.  And if I remember right, it doesn't

> work with any system > 6.0.3.

Funny, I ran it with 6.0.4 and no problems.

> The game itself may have some virtues, but considering the aforementioned
> bugs it's just a waste of money.

Talk to EA about this.  It might be that you got a real old version.  You
might be able to get an update from them.
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