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From: lishka@uwslh.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Marble Madness... where's the beef?
Message-ID: <241@uwslh.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Apr-87 11:32:46 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  2 11:32:46 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Apr-87 15:10:26 EST
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Reply-To: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Christopher Lishka)
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison, State Hygiene Lab
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Well, my brother has the Commodore 64 version of Marble Madness, and I finally
got to the secret board.  It is accessible from the very first screen.  Now,
I went to a friend's house and tried to get to the secret board on the Amiga,
but no go.  The Amiga version's screen isn't as wide as the64 version, so I 
couldn't even get to the correct spot.

Now, my friend says (and I believe) that the Amiga version doesn't have the
secret board.  There are a couple reasons:

	1) Fact: there are two versions of the game, one which runs on the 
  		 Amiga, and the other which runs on other machines.

	2) Fact: two different programmers wrote the two different versions.
		 Therefore, the two versions are probably (and in reality are)
		 rather different from each other.

	3) Rumor: my friend says that the Amiga version was a port from the 
		  original Atari arcade machine (because both worked on 68000
		  systems).  I believe this, because the Amiga version doesn't
		  use the entire width of the screen, and because EVERYTHING
		  is so similar.

Soooooooo, I think that there is probably no secret board on the Amiga.
Siiiiiiggghhhh.  Oh well, C'est la vie.

-- 
Chris Lishka                    /lishka@uwslh.uucp
Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene <-lishka%uwslh.uucp@rsch.wisc.edu
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