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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Stellar 7 re-release
Message-ID: <14703@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 10 Dec 90 22:12:14 GMT
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In article <9907@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>	I still think that Brian Greenestone or one of you other GS whizzes
>should try to get a contract with Sierra to improve/rewrite their adventure
>game "compiler"...  If I were currently a GS author, I would at least make the
>attempt if I were looking for a job. Another attempt would be to get a job
>at Origin writing Ultima V GS or Ultima VI GS or //e.

Right on!
I estimate that a "stock" IIGS with 1.125MB of memory is fully as capable as
a typical IBM PC clone; thus if a top-notch IIGS programmer worked on it,
Sierra SCI (thus the majority of their recent games) and Ultima V/VI should
be able to work nicely on a IIGS.  I don't think the //e is feasible, though,
not so much because of slow speed (although that does hurt) as because of
constrained RAM access -- memory management would be just too painful.