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Subject: Re: Opinions anyone?
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Date: 26 Feb 91 01:12:12 GMT
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wdmst3@unix.cis.pitt.edu (William D Moore) writes:

>Okay, if I can get some opinions on some games I've been thinking about buying,
>I'd really appreciate it.  Here are the following:

>StarFlight, put out by Electronic Arts.

>Wizardry I or II, put out by Sir Tech USA

>NetTrek: The Real Version, put out by Premier Technology

>Or, if you feel strongly about another game you've played, I'm open to 
>suggestions.

Well, StarFlight is a good game in a game mechanics sense, but it is a direct
port from ibm-land, and suffers from laziness on the part of the authors.
IBM CGA graphics are mapped directly to the mac screen, and they are UGLY.
(they map 4 mac pixels to 1 ibm pixel, so everything is big and chunky)



Dan Walkowski
Univ. of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci.
walkowsk@cs.uiuc.edu