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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Star Wars
Message-ID: <97105@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 1 Apr 89 01:24:01 GMT
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In article <120@dg.dg.com> bosch@dg.UUCP (Derek Bosch) writes:
-> Actually, Star Wars & Empire Strikes Back were written for the Amiga by
-> an English software company Domark.  Both of these programs have been
-> out in England since last June!!!  Broderbund managed somehow to get
-> the rights to the US release of Star Wars, but Domark still has the
-> rights to the US release of E. S. B..  I don't know what is taking
-> Broderbund so long to put their name on the title screen, but it can't
-> take 10 months 
->
->Still waiting to USE THE FORCE!!!

For all of you who have seen this program, does it use a 256 line 
screen? (PAL in otherwords) if so you might find it a bit depressing
on a 200 line NTSC screen. And _that_ could take some time to fix.


--Chuck McManis
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