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From: lyles@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Lyle N. Scheer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Jack Nicklaus Golf
Message-ID: <1991Jan23.225337.13462@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 23 Jan 91 22:53:37 GMT
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ewing@tortuga.SanDiego.NCR.COM (David Ewing) writes:

>The big new feature is the course designer. You can create your own
>courses (hence, the Unlimited title).  I haven't fully explored this
>yet, but it looks extremely thorough.

Well, I've played with the designer, and I am very disappointed.  The design
disk does allow you to build your own course in any way you wish.  You can
alter the terrain completely, edit all of the objects(trees, rocks, etc).  You
have a 360 degree background which you can edit any way you like.  The designer
does allow you to manipulate the course in any way possible, but it is so
awkward.

A particular example:  I wished to copy a course from the root directory of
a disk to it's own directory.  Now, this is all one one disk, but the program
kept asking me to "swap" source and destination disks, so I had to continually
re-insert the one disk.  (Moral:  Use the CLI to copy courses)

I also think the program is incredibly sluggish at moving from disk to disk
and directory to directory.  Annoying also is the fact that when you play a
game, it will always search(very slowly), the disk you booted on for courses.
If your course is on another disk, you have to wait for the entire root
directory of df0: comes up before you can switch to df1.

There are other occurances of a bad layout or just plain bad programming, but
I have found it relatively bug-free, and once loaded, a fine golf game to
play(and design your own courses).

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>David A. Ewing
>ewing@tortuga.sandiego.ncr.com
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