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From: ericb@athertn.Atherton.COM (Eric Black)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: F18 Interceptor - Is that ...?
Message-ID: <195@mango.athertn.Atherton.COM>
Date: 17 Jun 88 23:26:04 GMT
References: <360@obi-wan>
Reply-To: ericb@mango.UUCP (Eric Black)
Organization: Atherton Technology, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <360@obi-wan> berman@stsci.EDU (Mike Berman) writes:
>An interesting "coincidence" in F18:
>
>Look just west of the San Mateo bridge (the long one at the south end
>of the Bay). There are some buildings there. Two of them look like office
>buildings.
>

At the recent FAUG (First Amiga User's Group) meeting June 7th, Moses Ma
showed off F/A-18 Interceptor (Jay Miner was up front to demo it).
There was a certain amount of complaining about the copy protection scheme
using the decoder wheel, particularly the way it demands a counterkey
on each play, not just at program startup.

Anyway, in response to questions about the landmarks shown, Moses said
that the Electronic Arts building was indeed shown.  At this point,
many folks in the crowd shouted "Bomb it!", or words to that effect :-)

Moses said something about how that would turn off the copy protection...
I can tell he was pulling our collective mouse cord because I have
tried it -- it doesn't!  Sigh.  Would have been a nice touch!

Anyway, this past Monday I bought a copy of the program, and people
here at work have developed a certain addition to it.  I bought this
and "Marble Madness!" as demos of the graphics/animation/sound capabilities
of the Amiga -- I certainly don't play games on my computer! :-)

Highly recommended!

-- 
Eric Black	"Garbage in, Gospel out"
Atherton Technology, 1333 Bordeaux Dr., Sunnyvale, CA, 94089
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