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From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Stellar 7
Message-ID: <1138@stewart.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jun 91 15:03:27 GMT
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Reply-To: jerry@stewart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel)
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s892031@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Pumpkin Power) writes:
>
>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!!
>

I haven't seen the Amiga version, but I've played this game on an IBM with
VGA, and it was great!  It was plenty fast (on a 16MHz machine), the graphics
were fantastic, and I thought its playability was well above average.  I can't
imagine the Amiga version being much worse.  Has anyone else played it on the
Amiga?

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