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Subject: Re: monochrome games
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Date: 25 May 88 15:44:32 GMT
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Hi folks,

In Info-Atari16 Digest   Monday, May 23, 1988   Volume 88 : Issue 263,
Gareth Husk writes:

>Okay folks I have a little request. I have got a little fed-up
>trying to find the odd arcade game that will run on a hi-res
>monitor.
>
>So can any of you out there give me some information, plus a
>rating &c. None of the mags in this country gives the necessary
>info. Frequently neither does the packaging.
>
>This seems particularly studip to me as Atari claimed somewhere
>that most of their european users had hi-res rather than colour.

Very true. For this reason, a lot of european games are working in
both resolutions. For example, all the Firebird and Rainbird games
I know are working in monochrome and color (both companies are
subsidiaries of the british telecoms, I think):

- The Pawn         (adv. game, great graphics, funny plot, great parser)
- Guild of Thieves (same as above but even better)
- Tracker          (good strategy game)
- Starglider       (greatest 3D arcade game with some thinking too after 1st
                    level)

And here in the US, Sublogic made Flight Simulator II for both rez,
and good ol' Silent Service works fine too with B&W.
On Genie you can get a Public Domain clone of Lode Runner for
monochrome only (sweet revenge!), and this implementation is great!

Something missing on the ST is a hardware to see a color image with a
monochrome monitor (i.e a chip doing the same  thing than some recent
softwares). But I will glady swap this chip for a good blitter.

I hope this will help to hamper your productivity :-)

Regards,

     Frederic Mora                              BITNET:
     The College of William and Mary            #fjmora%wmmvs.bitnet
     Dept. of Computer Science
     Williamsburg, VA. 23185
     USA

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