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From: howard@amdahl.UUCP (Howard C. Simonson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.games
Subject: Re: Captain Magneto Help Needed!
Message-ID: <3036@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Apr-86 04:13:16 EST
Article-I.D.: amdahl.3036
Posted: Wed Apr 16 04:13:16 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 18-Apr-86 08:25:07 EST
References: <10466@ucla-cs.ARPA> <3195@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Reply-To: howard@amdahl.UUCP (Howard C. Simonson)
Organization: Amdahl Corp, UTS Products Group
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Keywords: User Interface or lack thereof
Xref: watmath net.micro.mac:5610 net.games:2728
Summary: Yes its really that bad

In article <3195@ut-ngp.UUCP> osmigo1@ut-ngp.UUCP (Ron Morgan) writes:

> Well, I just talked to the guy. After a considerable amount of light-hearted
> ridicule of your game-playing ability, he said to "listen to the clues."
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> The two-headed dude in the castle has something you have to get before you
> can get the pistol. 
> 
> ....Ron
...

I just couldn't let this pass.  I tried Captain Magneto.  After about 10
minutes of operating the game I got out the old bulk eraser.  Seriously
folks, is it me or is this one of the worst user interfaces ever programmed
on the Mac.  Someday someone will create a proper "joystick".  All that is
really required is a circle with a small hole in the center.  When the mouse
is on the hole, the character is resting.  Dragging the pointer onto the
"disc" starts the character moving in the corresponding direction.  The inside
edge is for walking, the outside edge is for running.  Make sense?  I could
always draw it up in MacPaint and post it :-).  Well I still have the comment
form for Magneto and I keep trying to remember to write up my criticisms and
send them to the author (low priority).  Maybe the next version...

P.S.  I also cannot stand those pleading and sometimes insulting ads for
      money.  I'm sure they do more harm then good.  Hopefully the author
      will have made a fortune on the first release so a second can leave
      the whinning to the Mac's speaker.
-- 
Time for a new catchy phrase in my                           Howard C. Simonson
 .signature, now if I could only     ...{dragon,hplabs,ihnp4,nsc}!amdahl!howard
  think of one...

[ Opinion? What opinion.  I think you have the wrong guy... ]