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From: nad@tegra.COM (Nancy Durgin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: WINGS
Keywords: WINGS
Message-ID: <1864@joker.tegra.COM>
Date: 18 Dec 90 18:06:05 GMT
References: <1990Dec18.145134.23339@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: nad@joker.UUCP (Nancy Durgin)
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In article <1990Dec18.145134.23339@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mkiteam@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (E.Japel) writes:
> [ Mini-review of Wings deleted ]
> 
>The graphics are very good, and the action fast.  My only complaint is
>that you cannot 'save' games.  If your character dies, you have to 
>create a new character.  You don't have to start at the beginning of the
>game, but your new character will not last very long at a higher level.  
>(my work around was to copy my 'disk 2' every so often to save my status
>at that point.)

Actually, you just have to copy the file "player.dat" (I think that was
the name -- the one whose date just changed, anyway), not the whole
disk.  I did this a lot when I was playing the game, and had one pilot 
make it through the whole war (what, me cheat? ;-).

>
>All in all it is a very worthwhile game to play!

Yup, I thought so!

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