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From: am66@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Alexander Maldutis)
Subject: Re: Wing Commander question
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1991 13:42:54 GMT

With all of this talk about Wing Commander, I thought I'd put in my two cents:

First, I have the game and run it on a 20mHz 386, and it is still slow.  It
is a memory hog, crashes every so often (but this may be due to a bad disk 
block), and in general, contains much more style than substance.

A game similar to WC is Warhead, published by Activision in the UK.  The 
graphics, although polygon, are much smoother than those of WC, and the sound
is also very good, very ominous.  I would recommend it to all.

In conclusion, I would agree with the poster several months ago who believed
that the games native to the Amiga are much better than those ported from the
IBM.  Since I can usually play games on both machines, I have also found that
this is so.

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