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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Halls of Montezuma (was: Re: VIDEO GAME RATINGS REPORT [APPLE])
Keywords: IIgs, HOM, games, ratings
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Date: 7 Apr 91 09:32:17 GMT
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In article <1991Apr6.230013.7456@incom.incom.de> spock@incom.incom.de (Martin Georg) writes:
>If you've seem some misscaled fonts on your, IIgs, you haven't installed
>the right fonts in your system. I run HOM off my harddisk (it's not copy
>protected) and it has very nice and correctly scaled fonts there - I think
>they are Helvetica or Geneva ...

	Could you try to run it off of a virgin System Disk 5.0x and see
if the right fonts are there??

>Right, the game is not too fast and accesses the disk from time to time. On
>the other side, a serious IIgs system needs 2MB of RAM, a harddisk and a
>accelerator to use high-level IIgs-software. And on such systems, HOM runs
>very nice. BTW, I think that HOM is a highly complex simulation and needs
>some processing power!

	Now that's BS in my opinion.  Randy Hyde's comments about 
assembly seem more and more appropriate.. I guess I should learn 65816! heh.
I really do think this game was written all in some high level language.
It's just a guess though.

	NEED an accelerator? I just don't like that kind of thinking..
There's too little GS software as it is and you don't want to have some that
requires an accelerator. The authors should write stuff in assembly
(or at least important portions of it).. Games that is, and productive
programs.. [Like some NDAs and little programs can be in C or Pascal..]

>Sorry, you unknown user (will we ever know you name???), but your comments

	Who was that masked man?
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