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From: chow@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac games [Was: Crystal Quest]
Message-ID: <5764@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 4 Aug 88 00:51:35 GMT
References: <61979@sun.uucp> <431@dbase.UUCP> <15053@santra.UUCP>
Reply-To: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <15053@santra.UUCP> jmunkki@santra.UUCP (Juri Munkki) writes:
|In article <431@dbase.UUCP| awd@dbase.UUCP (Alastair Dallas) writes:
||While we're commending Greene, Inc. for Crystal Quest, let me add my vote
||that it's the best game on the Mac II in terms of showing your wife why you
||
|| Let me add that some people find the game boring and much too simple.  
||
|| I tried the game, but since I'm pretty good with the mouse, I got a few
|| million points in my second game...

My feelings exactly.  Most of my friends who have used the Mac before were
able to get very high scores within two or three games.  But then, some
people still can't get past 1 million points after months of play so there
has to be a middle ground...

|
|Everyone I know of has been able to complete Wizardry I.  Even Jerry
|Pournelle did it after several months...that should prove something.
|
|Wishlist:
|	MS Flight Simulator in color. (I just got AFT: It's good, but no maps.)

  Microsoft has indicated that they don't intend to update Flight Simulator
  for the II/SE. (They lied -- at one time they had said that they would
  update ALL their programs to work on the II/SE)

|	Network version of MS_FS.

  See above comment.  MS_FS is *dead*

|	Wizardry II, III and especially IV for the Mac.
  
  The local rumor in Ithaca is that Woodhead lost so much money on Wizadry I
  due to piracy that he refuses to release Mac version of Wizadry II, III,...

|
|Maybe Apple should use some of the extra money they have around to produce
|some really nifty network games for demonstration purposes...
|

What Apple should also do is to release some of their in house Mac II demo
programs.  They have this sound program which shows off the Apple Sound Chip
by reading, in real time, samples off a hard disk.  While this is going on,
other things can occur at the same time.  Apparently the sample buffer can
be as small as 25k for reading samples at 44.1kHz!

Christopher Chow
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