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From: wirehead@oxy.edu (David J. Harr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Starflight recommendation?
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Date: 8 Nov 90 17:18:41 GMT
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mkelly@cs.uoregon.edu (Michael A. Kelly) says about StarFlight:

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).   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.	And if I remember right, it doesn't
work with any system > 6.0.3.

While I agree that StarFlight does not have the best graphics, and its modal
setup can be *VERY* frustrating at times, I must disagree with the idea that
it is totally unstable. I ran it for three weeks on an accelerated Mac II w/
sys 6.05, and had no system errors whatsoever (except those that my own
programming caused). In my opinion, the biggest virtue of the game is that
it is *INTERESTING*. It takes one heckuva a game to keep my attention for
the 100+ hours I took to finish it. The storyline is interesting, the worlds
diverse and plentiful, and you have to really work to put the puzzle all
together. So, despite its many shortcomings as a Mac game, its strength as a
game system made it good for me. I would reccomend it.

Make that "reCoMMend" it (2 m's and 1 c. Someday, I'll learn to spell..)

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