Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ucbvax!UMass.BITNET!MCOHAN From: MCOHAN@UMass.BITNET (Michael Cohan, U of Mass/Amherst) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: RE: monochrome games Message-ID: <861208195110.00001DE5.AQVC.MA@UMass> Date: Mon, 8-Dec-86 19:51:10 EST Article-I.D.: UMass.861208195110.00001DE5.AQVC.MA Posted: Mon Dec 8 19:51:10 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Dec-86 00:04:38 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 27 Eric Terrell writes: > Someone on the net said that starglider ran on mono systems. I tried to > boot a dealer's copy, and got bomb characters. I have Starglider, and it works perfectly in monochrome. Your dealer must have had a bad disk (or maybe an older version??) > Flight Simulator is reported to say color or mono on the box, but allegedly > only works on color systems. The currently shipped version is color only. However, a friend of mine called Sublogic, and was told that a monochrome version will ship in January. > The krabat chess game and the puzzle game that I posted only work on mono > systems. Much of the European software is like this. In Europe, >80% of systems sold are monochrome, precisely the reverse of the U.S. MCOHAN%UMASS.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA MCOHAN@UMASS.BITNET MIKECOHAN on Delphi ----------------------------------------------------------- Indecision is the basis of flexibility. -----------------------------------------------------------