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From: tg.exc@pro-harvest.cts.com (Terry Guelfo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Stellar-7 for GS was Re: New Computer?
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Date: 11 Dec 90 07:36:08 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from scalawag@blake.u.washington.edu

>>> Someone posted that Sierra has released a new version of Stellar-7 and
>>> asked when a GS version would be written. It'll never be written. The GS
>>> cant do what that program needs it to do. Stellar-7 uses VGA (640x480
>>> graphics) with 256 colors; the GS cant do 640x480 and cant do 256 colors
>>> in its highest (640) mode.
>>

>I would be personally surprised if the game was 640x480 w/ 256 colors. Most

Ummm, excuse me here, folks, but Stellar-7 was released on the APPLE //E about
oh... 7 years ago?  Golly, I think they could improve on that and make a
slam-bang Gs version, don't you?

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