Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!ge-dab!tarpit!fang!att!cbnewsl!conty From: conty@cbnewsl.att.com (The Conty) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games Subject: Re: New MS Flight Sim! (and news from the Summer CES) Message-ID: <1991Jun4.153639.2125@cbnewsl.att.com> Date: 4 Jun 91 15:36:39 GMT References: <52839@apple.Apple.COM> <13507@goofy.Apple.COM>, Organization: The Event Horizon Lines: 45 In article , jo0e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jared M. Oberhaus) writes: > I'm really excited about MS Flight Simulator in color, but what I really > want is a new version of Falcon. Spectrum HoloByte did one hell of a job > creating Falcon back in 1987 (and earlier), but it hasn't been updated > since then. (They did follow the rules though-it works with System 7!) > Falcon AT for those icky PCs has been out for a while, so they know how > to do color. > If anyone from Spectrum HoloByte is listening, I'll be the first to buy > a full screen color verson of Falcon! Good news for you. Sunday at the Summer CES I got news that Spectrum Holobyte is going to release Falcon 3.0 for the Mac, sometime next year (I also got a Falcon 3.0 glass mug :-)). They will have a color version, :-) 16 colors most likely. :-( In other news... Koei's Nobunaga's Ambition will be out for the Mac. I believe Romance of the Three Kingdoms is already out. Interplay is going to release a color Mac version of BattleChess, as a CD-ROM! The B&W version is already out. I didn't see anyone from Maxis, but I saw a magazine preview of something called "Sim Ants". Yup, an ant colony in the Sim tradition!! 360 claims they're going to release a new version of Harpoon with bug fixes. "Patriot" is a new game by Harpoon designer Frank Chadwick, this time focusing on ground warfare. It comes with a Gulf War battleset (natch). 360 had another Mac strategy game. It looked like a chess variant, with figures carrying spears, crossbows and T.O.W. missiles. Origin is releasing NO new games for the Mac. :-( :-( Wing Commander II looks AWESOME! Colonel (formerly Major) Bill Stealey of Microprose told me about the Mac release or Command HQ. This should be old news to Mac owners of Railroad Tycoon, though. :-) BTW, Microprose is getting into arcade (as in coin-op) games, with a couple of impressive 3-D first-person simulators (F15 Strike Eagle and B.O.T.S., a BattleTech clone (you should have seen the faces of the FASA ESP people!!). -- E n r i q u e C o n t y The Amazing Man-With-No-Life jester@ihlpl.att.com