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From: carlton@apollo.HP.COM (Carlton B. Hommel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: harpoon on a Plus? - yes
Keywords: harpoon,plus
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Date: 14 Feb 91 19:09:00 GMT
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Eric Albright asks:
>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?

I've played Harpoon on both a Mac II and a Plus.  The speed decrement
is playable.

First, the first half of the senarios use few units.  I spent several
days playing them over and over, translating the tactics I have read
about to game activities.  For example:
    o Don't send out ASW P-3 Orions without air cover.
    o Don't have ships travelling too fast for the sonar to work.
    o Don't use active radar/sonar unless you have good reason to.

Second, the game has time compression built in.  You can set the
progress rate from 1 sec = 1 sec (useful for watching air combat) 5, 30
sec, 1,5,10, and 30 minutes (useful when you want ships to get from
place to place).  On a Plus, there is no difference between the last 3
settings - it just chugs along as fast as it can.

There is a crashing bug with Pluses, that the company says will be
fixed in the next upgrade - call them for details.  When I stopped my
screen saver, and MultiFinder, they stopped happening.

There is a Harpoon mailing list.  Send to cz-request@pram.cs.ucla.edu
to get added.

Have fun,
Carl Hommel
carlton@apollo.hp.com