Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!acad3.alaska.edu!fsadl From: fsadl@acad3.alaska.edu (LOOMIS ANDREW D) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Their Finest Hour - Worth it? (was: Good flight simulator for Amiga?) Message-ID: <1991Feb26.230415.24283@ims.alaska.edu> Date: 26 Feb 91 23:04:15 GMT References: <7230@crash.cts.com> <2066@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> <2218@otc.otca.oz> Sender: usenet@ims.alaska.edu (J Random USENET) Reply-To: fsadl@acad3.alaska.edu Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks Lines: 25 News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4 Nntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu In article , jkh@meepmeep.pcs.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes... >Nice game, lots of detail, but very slow and jerky update speed on >a stock Amiga. I've heard several people say that it runs very nicely >on accellerated Amigas/A3000's, so I'm hanging onto my copy for the day >when I finally move up. On an A500 with 2.5MB of memory, though, I find >it too slow to play. It's stayed in its box since the second day I've owned >it. Sigh. > >It's funny. FA/18 is like TFH's opposite twin. Great "feel" and fighting >speed, but pretty thin in the missions dept. If TFH had FA/18's basic >feel, without sacrificing the mission detail, I'd probably starve to death >from forgetting to eat. :-) The only problem which i have with Their Finest Hour is the long wait while it is loading, accessing the map, etc. Once the game is running the speed is sufficient on my 500 with 1meg. I prefer it to the jet fighter simulations I've played but that is primarily because I prefer the seat of your pants dogfighting with only .30 cal machine guns to killing from miles away with radar and missiles. Andrew Loomis Bitnet: FSADL@ALASKA Internet: FSADL@ACAD3.ALASKA.EDU I must be a bush pilot; I learned to fly in Alaska.