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From: bazyar@ernie (Jawaid Bazyar)
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Subject: Re: Castle Wolfenstein emu-piled on Amiga
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.071757.28836@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 30 Apr 91 07:17:57 GMT
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In article <1991Apr30.035718.28873@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> liebm@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Mark Lieb) writes:
[...]
>If someone is going to go through the trouble of recoding this thing, WHY
>make it the SAME graphically?  I loved my old Apple //e.  I loved Castle
>Wolfenstein, but when it could look Amiga quality, to make it Apple quality
>is senseless.

  First off, did you ever consider that recoding the ol' Wolfer to use
Amiga graphics might make it necessary to recode most of the game? As
opposed to emulating the '02 instruction set and catching references to
the hires page?

Flame on

   Gee, you must be AWFULLY sure that only AMIGA people read this newsgroup.
I fear if someone tried to rewrite Wolfenstein for the Amiga, it would turn
out as pulp, like 90% of all those "great" Amiga games.
   To be honest, I've never seen games on the Amiga that have been as 
enduring as my Apple II games- Bilestoad, Wizardry, Black Magic, Bolo, 
Choplifter, Cannonball Blitz, Dung Beetles, Apple Panic.  These games WIN
because they authors didn't worry about whether their graphics looked 
better than the next guys.  They concentrated on something I've seen a big
lack of in many Amiga games (including ones with really NICE graphics)-
playability.  The day I see an Amiga game as utterly fantastic as Bilestoad,
I will capitulate.
   But until then, watch what you say about Apple IIs, and the Amiga's
'obvious' superiority in the game department. It's got great ability,
but I've rarely seen that ability used.

Flame off

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