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From: bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt)
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Subject: Re: New Amiga games
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Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 03:59:40 EDT
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Summary: Some more I would like to see

In article <4091@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>	Hallelujah!  Someone else noticed!
>
>	Okay.....  Here's a *partial* list of the games I'd like to see
>written for the Amiga ("Rating" field is subjective):
>
>Rating	Title			Publisher		Available for
>------	-----			---------		-------------
****	Dark Castle		Silicon Beach Software	Mac
******	Spin-Dizzy		Electric Dreams		C64
***	Net-Snipes		Novell			IBM w/NetWare
****	Cauldron II		Palace Software		C64

BTW: Forbidden Forest is by Cosmi.  Jumpan deserves the fantasic rating.
Dark Castle is rummored to be in the works.  Castle Wolfenstein is by
Muse software and is also available on the C64.

Net-Snipes is neat only because it works in real time over a network.
(Talks via a temp file on hard disk!)


>****	Sinistar		Williams		Coin-op
I understand that an unknown by the name "R.J. Mical" worked on (wrote?)
this game.

>******	Mappy			Namco/Bally		Coin-op
Poor thing disappeared.  It deserved to live...

>****	BallBlazer		Epyx/Lucasfilm		Atari 800
This should be expanded on:
**	BallBlazer		Epyx/Lucasfilm		C64
I'd toss and extra star or two on the 800 version.

Many games play better on the Atari 800 than the C64.  BallBlazer is
a prime example.  (Of course this time the Amiga has Jay Miner's
chips)


The most amazing conversion I have ever witnesed was done with the Atarisoft
version of "Donkey Kong".  Mike Cranford wrote it on an Apple ][.  They took
the source code and passed it through some gigantic "filter" on the IBM.
Out came an almost working IBM version.  Freaky to look at the IBM version
and *swear* that it is running on an Apple ][ because all the subtle artifacts
of Apple ][ hi-res are preserved.  Don't know if it ever went to market.

Atarisoft almost insisted that the non Atari conversions of the games be
worse than the 400/800 version... sigh!


Conversions are a sticky issue.  Only on rare occasions have I ever seen
a conversion that was better on the destination machine.  In most such cases
not too much effort was wasted on trying to remain totaly faithful to the
original.  Instead the effort was spent on "doing it right".  Think about
it.

 
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