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From: ric@netcom.COM (Richard Bretscheider)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: RoboSport - First Impressions
Message-ID: <1991May23.040028.12565@netcom.COM>
Date: 23 May 91 04:00:28 GMT
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ack@wings.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams) writes:

>Well, I caved in and bought my copy.

>First: It is an amazing game and I am impressed.

>However, I was SHOCKED at the shoddiness! First: The floppies in the box
>were covered with some white dust (gee...) and one of the floppies
>had the metal gate half ripped off. Great. Well, the disk worked anyway.
>When I first ran it, it said that I had to enter the symbols as they appear
>on ... that's it. It didn't say anything else. No page number. I had to
>go in with ResEdit and widen the text field in that dialog to make the
>page number appear.

This is a bug in RoboSport under System 7.  When I called Maxis, they
admitted it to me, but didn't suggest your simple work around.  Thanks.

>But after those first few angst-ridden minutes I got it to work and
>I love it! The game is fun to play and a nice strategy game. I have
>a feeling I am going to be here late tonight playing it.

And tomorrow night, and morning, and calling in sick to work....

>I think one of the best things about Maxis (and Delta Tao too for that
>matter) is the sense of humor of the company. The game is amusing as
>well as well done. During the finale when you are being scored the sounds
>of battle wafting over the wall behind the scoreboard is hysterical.

I'd go with you on Delta Tao, they're genuinely fun people.  However
I got burned by buying the first version of Sim City by a guy who 
explained that they were going along on a shoestring, so that's why
the Plus version didn't work on a Plus and was so heavily copy 
protected.  I bought another version, expecting it to be copy pro
free (as was the Mac II version) and was told that people who bought
IIs didn't pirate software, but at least this keydisk version wouldn't
crash my Plus.  Lately, they've gotten a new non-cp version that runs
on a plus (cp is manual lookup type) but they want more bucks for this
one and it isn't happy with System 7.  (I think I've spent around 
$80 on my Sim City by now.  Bitter?  A tad.

Delta Tao however sold me Spaceward Ho directly.  They've upgraded me
twice for nothing.  Are always friendly on the phone and freely 
discuss bugs.  _They_ are developers in "the Macintosh Way."

Yeah, we return you to your normally scheduled network...sorry about
the flying spittle.

-- 

"If you're not going to kill me, I've got things to do."
Ric Bretschneider
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