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From: moyer@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Eric Moyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Sky Shadow & Starlight on the IIsi
Summary: They work!
Keywords: shadow, starlight, si, spam!
Message-ID: <7009@vax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Date: 12 Nov 90 19:36:50 GMT
Reply-To: moyer@vax1.udel.edu (Eric Moyer)
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   Well, I couldn't decide wheather to buy starlight or sky shadow so I 
bought them both! I have a mac IIsi and they both run without problems. 
Starlight's a little finicky about one of my inits, but I haven't bothered
to figure out which one, I just turn them all off at startup.

   SKY SHADOW - Cassady and Greene made a kind of wierd move in relaeasing
both new games at the same time. When I tried to decide which one to buy, I 
could never remember the difference between them. I remembered hearing that
one of the games (Sky Shadow) took all the point you'd earned with a ship away
if you bombed your own city, so I decided not to buy that one 'cause it seemed
like it had a major logic flaw. Happily, I could not find the posting reviewing
either game so I got them both and fopund out that the city-bombing thing
with Sky Shadow really isn't so bad at all. You get to know the landscape
pretty well, and bombing your own base takes a bit of over-anxiousness and
stupidity. (the landscape is of the scrolling "defender" type, but rendered
in EXCELLENT detail and color).

   KUDOS for both games...

   SKY SHADOW - great sound effects, fast action, and marvelous colors. The
        landscape is drawn using dithering (alternating pixels of different
        colors) to achive more than 16 colors, and I must say they did a 
        FANTASTIC job with it. I haven't gotten to level 3 yet, so I don't
        know what it looks like, but I can't wait.

   STARLIGHT - NEAT SOUND!!!!! I don't know why no-body had talked this up
        yet, but starlight playes continuous digitally sampled music in the
        background while you play. Each piece of music consists of a phrase
        which repeats (about 9 seconds worth) continuously. The "ends" of the
        phrases meet up very well, and sound fantastic (Especially the one
        when you get to a planet's surface). To my knowledge, no other mac
        game to date has done this kind of sound effect DURING the game 
        action. (ShufflePuck does it at the opening, BOMBER & FALCON use a
        continuous engine sound that's theoretically the same concept, but 
        it aint music).

  I love 'em both, and like I said - the IIsi has no compatability problems
with them.

SIM EARTH & THE SI - I'll let you know Wednesday!

 
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