From: courtn@hercules.cs.uregina.ca (todd courtnage)
Subject: Re: Help me not to change computers!
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:48:46 GMT
Organization: University of Regina, SK, Canada

In article <barnabas.2mcl@terapin.com> barnabas@terapin.com (Colin Smith) writes:
>wonder of Another Amiga should be in my future. I've just picked up another
>issur of Computer Gaming World hoping they would have some cool Amiga games on
>review, turns out that there was only one. Oh well, So I see an add for a new
>Sierra/Dymanic game comming out on the MS-DOS platform. I place a call to
>Sierra and they told me that they are no longer supporting the Amiga! (i live
>in the USA for those who need to know.) So, in a depressed state of mind, I
>flip through the pages and see all these wonderfull games that i desparately
>want to play, but will probably never be ported to the Amiga. (If some of those

I think you need to pick up some of the British Amiga games mags.  Flip thru
them and you'll see ads for Amiga games with no mention of IBM ports.  
Looking thru the Dec. issue of The One, theres Desert Strike and Road Rash
by EA, No Second Prize by Thalion (there's a demo of this bike racing game
on the cover disk of The One, and it's AWESOME!  Really smooth and fast.),
Sensible Soccer (by Sensible Software...who else :-), Universal Monsters by
Ocean, Rampart by Domark, Crystal Kingdom by Codemasters.  By the way, if
it's any consolation, The One reports that both Sierra and Lucasarts
reaffirmed their commitment to the Amiga.  In fact, Sierra is even setting
up a UK-based development team to handle future Amiga conversions.

On top of that, Interplay has set up it's first UK office, and will be
producing/publishing it's own games (ie not thru EA, like in US/Canada).
What this means is, we'll be seeing Star Trek: The 25th Anniversary game,
Castles II: Seige and Conquest and Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space for the
Amiga.  They have a sneak preview of Star Trek in the issue, it's been in 
development since last July (although they weren't saying anything about it
till they announced the UK office), and if the pictures are of the Amiga
version is looks GREAT!  They're even adding improvments to the Amiga 
version that weren't in the IBM version.

TTFN.  Hope I changed your mind.


>games were being pported, it would look like crap!). So, (This is not for the
>timid to read) I'm considering an MSDOS clone or mabye a mac so I can play
>these games. I don't want to change computers just for the games though, there
>is Word Prossing, and Mabye Graphics of some sort somewhere in my future. I
>know the Amiga is right there in terms of Graphics and Such, but in here is the
>USA, MSDOS is the thing! Question: Will these new AGA machines catch on in the
>US? will companies like Sierra and Origin (And otheres) port games to these new
>Amigas? will there be very good word prossors for my school stuff? I'm sure
>there will be excellent graphics, and such. I'm just not sure. I want to play
>those games, learn to code demos, etc and I want you guys to convince me that
>the Amiga is worth keeping. Thanks.
>
>PS. I hope i posted this message in the right news group.. I don't want to piss
>anyone off..