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From: spencer@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Review: Dark Castle
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Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 19:18:36 EST
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In article <4393@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
...[ What'll I do with the middle button on my mouse? ]
...
...	One of the more popular games to come out for the Macintosh was a
...goodie called Dark Castle.  Now, this game is available for the Amiga.  I
...recently picked up a copy, and have played around with it for a while.  For
...those who care, here are my impressions of the game.

...Not-so-good Points:
...	o I get the impression that the screens are merely "colorized"
...	  versions of the MAC screens.  I.e. the artwork in some places is
...	  not the greatest, which is understandable (we can't all be Jim
...	  Sachs).

Ooooo!  I had lunch with the artist yesterday, he wouldn't like that review!

...	o The MAC version allows you to type your whole name in on the high
...	  score chart.  The Amiga version only allows three initials.

What can you say, the guy that did the program came from an arcade 
background, the version of the program I have seen has the initials 'VID'
right above the initials 'KID'.  I think he likes that stuff.

...Bad points:
...	o Disk access gets to be painfully slow.  The program does no
...	  caching of already-read data for large-memory systems.

I asked Mike about that, he says that the problem is the copy-protection
that 360 put on the disk.  They didn't put hooks into the program, they
put in a patch so that the protection can be ported from machine to machine
I guess, but the loss of control on the programmers part means that even
though the program is key disk protected, you can't run from any other
disk than the original.  Sort of bad managment all around.

...	o Copying main data file to RAM: doesn't work (Guru).

See previous line...

...	o Program refuses to work with FACC ][ (Guru; Dark Castle must be
...	  doing something awfully stupid to not work with FACC).

See previous line...

...	o Copy-protected.  It's a game; what did you expect?

Aaah, that's it, there's the problem.

...Leo L. Schwab -- The Guy in The Cape	ihnp4!ptsfa -\
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