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From: greg@enterprise.Sun.COM (Greg George - Sun Area Project Consultant - Midwest )
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Subject: Re: harpoon on a Plus?
Keywords: harpoon,plus
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Date: 14 Feb 91 16:01:43 GMT
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In article <3481@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>, albright@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Eric Albright) writes:
|> 
|> After seeing the postings here I am sure that Harpoon is a game that I
|> want. The question is if it is fast enough on the plus? Or will it just be
|> annoyingly slow?
|> 
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Harpoon is excruciatingly slow on the plus and SE. I would not
recommend it for those mavchines. I have an accelerated IIci
at home and find that Harpoon's speed is 'appropriate' (you
don't have to wait for mouse or keyboard input). However,
in my Dad's SE, turning up the time pasing to 30:1 didn't even
make a dent in the more complex scenarios (two fleets, raid
on Northern Britain). Its a great game, but it needs to be
optimized to be useful on 68000 machines.

greg