From: nudd@zikzak.apana.org.au (Nai Ying Kwok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Wing Commander Amiga (Public Note)
Date: 24 Jan 1993 21:55:38 +1100
Organization: Zikzak public access UNIX, Melbourne Australia
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rlt20429@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Robert L. Thomas) writes:


>Chuckle, 386 at 16mhz?  Well standard mhz is 33 now and thats almost to fast 
>for it.  I have a 66mhz and had to turn off my cache to get a chance to play
>it.  While I agree that amiga is a better machine on paper then the ibm types
>time for the amiga is/has run out.  Before you buy that 1200 perhaps you 
>should think about the future of commadore.  I bailed out because I had 
>no desire to have to mail order my games from europe in a few more years.
>Also point two is that wing commander is OLD for the ibm, think its been at 
>least a year since its release, and civilization is the same.  I for one got
>sick of waiting to see if they would make an 'amiga version'.  If you want to
>see state of the art (well almost its old too) try wing commander II on a 
>486 - whatever.  Smooth, great graphics (much better then on one) better 
>game play, and the sound is fantastic with a soundblaster (aprox $85 for that)
>now the question is will they make THAT one for amiga, and for that matter
>will they make privateer (the new game from the WC series) EVER for the 
>amiga, and will it be in 2 years, long after it has gathered dust on the
>ibm users shelves?

<Sigh> I feel so sorry for you... Are you seriously telling me that WC on
the 1200 is going to be slow? Remember this a a 32 bit data bus machine
we're talking about here... And WCII and Underworld etc are already under
development and due to be released this year. Although Origin isn't
involved in writing the games, they are going to be ported over, and for
once, the game developers are listening to the users (qv the new version
of WC just released).

I think that the 1200 should be considered the de facto base machine from
now as it is so incredibly popular in Europe and also so comparatively
cheap as well.  Back in the days I bought my 500, it cost more than the
1200 costs nowadays!  It is a fine entry level machine and I am sure is
fully capable to pushing gfx out as fast as any 486 you could throw at it.
It will run 4-5 times faster than the 500 and in addition the graphics
routines are in general 2x faster than 2.x machines.  That makes it's gfx
routines around 10 times faster than a stock Amiga, which can already
scroll better than lots of 386s.

Plus you get a multitasking environment (something I could _never_ live
without, so the bloody PCs are no use to me.

You got out too early my friend, perhaps you should think about selling
your PC and buying a 1200, or if you can afford a Local bus 486 (32bit
data buses) and gfx accelerator and 8 mb of 32 bit wide ram (as well as a
$85 SB of course :),  maybe you
will be better off spending that kinda money on a far superior (even in
terms of processing power) A4000?

>RT

>(anyone want to buy a 2000?)

NY - Amiga advocate with renewed zeal for the machine after hearing about
the AGA machines, the low end chipset and the highend chipset... not to
mention RISC Amigas hahahahahaha.

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