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From: s892031@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Pumpkin Power)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Stellar 7
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.083440.21321@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 14 Jun 91 08:34:40 GMT
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Cedric.Beust@f98.n250.z1.FidoNet.Org (Cedric Beust) writes:


>In article <91150.130131MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu> MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu (MarkNo
>Goofy Nickname Sachs) writes:
>>
>>Say, here's a neat idea for a PD game... anyone up to translating the
>>original Stellar 7, wireframe graphics and all? Hmm, I may even take a
>>whack at it myself.

>  I'd be very interested if such a project came to achievement!

Too late. Dynamix, a division of Sierra, has produced yet another piece
of excremental software, and stuck the label 'Stellar 7' on it. It's
basically a conversion of the old game, but with filled vectors. Problem
being the people who programmed it obviously don't know the difference
between the Amiga and the IBM. The vectors were obviously done purely
with the processor, and probably written in C (or possibly Pascal!!) on top
of that. If you've got an accelerator then it will probably update at an
acceptable speed (if it doesn't crash...) It will still have a playability
of about zero though (slow vectors aside, the game was still crap IMHO).
Needless to say, after testing it in the store I didn't buy it. I'd
suggest you test it out before paying any money also!!

Peter Barton (s892031@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au)