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From: tagreen@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Todd A. Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: CHAOS AND DUNGEON MASTER
Message-ID: <1991Apr2.143712.20569@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 2 Apr 91 14:37:12 GMT
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In article <7146.27F81052@zswamp.fidonet.org> Stewart.Mckinnon@p0.f178.n221.z1.fidonet.org (Stewart Mckinnon) writes:
>RE:PLAYED ALL THREE VERSIONS....Well, I was only aware of the ST and 
>Amiga versions. As regards the ST, people complained that it was lacking 
>in some features - such as good sound and I understand there is no 
>WAR CRY option. Also, the Oracle was either limited or not available. 
>I REALLY don't think the MAC could do either DM or CHAOS justice, 
>do you? 
>

Not trying to start another Amiga vs. Mac war but the Mac is more than
capable of doing DM and CHAOS justice.  If DM will run on the IIGS
(running at a whopping 2.6Mhz with 1Mhz for i/o and a 16 bit bus) then
my 16Mhz, 32-bit bus, 24-bit color IIcx should be able to handle the
job.  The sound quality is good too with 22.1khz, 8bit sound. (I
believe it's more or less the same as the Amiga (the sound that is).
Both have 4 channel stereo right? The IIGS version was more or less an
exact copy (visually) of the Amiga version.  It contained the War Cry
(and you're right if memory serves the ST didn't have the War Cry).
The only difference between the Amiga and IIGS version (again it's
been about 1 1/2 years since I've played this) was that the way the
mouse worked was a little different due to only having one button.
Secondly it played considerably slower (though like I said adding an
accelerator to the IIGS made it fly) Finally when you picked up an
object with the hand cursor, instead of turning into a colored version
of the object, it was still blue.  Besides this I think they were
visually identical.

As far as the low end Macs go (i.e. 1bit color Macs ;) ).  Yeah I
don't think that they would have the spectacular brilliance  that the
color version would have, but nonetheless the playability would be the
same. The machine would be hardware wise capable of handling the game,
but the lack of color would be the shame.

Todd
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