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From: ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: $$$ EXCLUSIVE GAME CLUB $$$ -- Indy 500
Message-ID: <1990Nov17.025737.20558@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 90 02:57:37 GMT
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From article <3831@mindlink.UUCP>, by a864@mindlink.UUCP (Jono Moore):
> Don't bother with LHX - it's a waste of space.  The graphics are terrible and
> it is also a terrible sim.  For good sound get Their Finest Hour - The Battle
> of Britain by Lucasfilm Games (also has good graphics) and Wing Commander
> (forgot who makes it... awesome graphics and pretty good sound).

Did you have any appropriate sound card when trying out LHX?  (Yes, it sounds
horrible thru the PC speaker).  If not, go get a sound card before you
start huffing and puffing again.

I don't recall Battle of Britain using the sound card.  I spent many many days
and over five hundred dollars this summer on games alone, I have yet to find 
any game with the sound effect (thru 80 watts of hi-fi speakers, that is)
that comes anywhere near LHX and Indy500.

Wing Commander itself might be another story.  Does it use any
sound card (Sound Blaster or Adlib).  I saw some of its ad and admittedly 
was tempted to buy.  I might, if you say that it uses sound card.

What's this hang-up about sound card?  There is world, or galaxies of
difference between games using sound card and those that don't.  It takes you
PC gaming setup to the level ABOVE those in the video arcade.  In fact, 
it is very hard to get me interested in games that don't have sound card
capability.  Point in case, I paid $40 in good money for MS Flight Simulator
version 4.  Two days later I gave it away despite its very good graphics plus
the fact that I have both the control yoke and rudder padel for it.  Its been
three months now and I have yet to miss it.  Try it, take yourself to a
higher level.  (My only problem is that game production companies hesitate to
spend timprogramming for the sound card, hence I am hoping more people will
use it, thereby encouraging them to do so).

Is Wing Commander so good as the ad implies?

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