From: davereed@wam.umd.edu (Michael Robert Bromery)
Subject: Psygnosis and Wing Com.
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:22:58 GMT

  Well, Psygnosis is absolutely not going out of the Amiga market. Don't
start any untrue rumors here. In terms of Wing commander. I would find it
very hard for anyone with an IBM not to be surprised with the amiga version
of Wingcommander. Please check your version. If, while in flight, you hit
the F10 key and you see the words 3D themselves into view:
   -- Wing Commander Ver. A6.81E --
    and you have a 2.0 operating system or higher, then you can truly say it.
The game was not only improved, but the game running on a machine with
graphics.library >= 37.000 looks Very close to the original version. Sure, you
may tell a little, but on the most part, enough to be the same that you don't
shades lost don't even appear in important places. The original VGA version
didn't even use many on screen colors over the 32 color pallette. All the 
things I've heard about it as in complaints in graphics, either must of been
fixed or didn't show up in mine. No problems saving, no problems with the
graphics of the people talking, no problems with the fact that this version
works on all amigas, all chipsets, all processors, no problems with run-on
sentences. No problems with added features, no problems with having only 512K
of chip ram and running it from my 16 color workbench. No problems with heated
dogfights. No wierd protection schemes. In fact, I see the effects of people
who listened to our reply on what future games for the amiga should be like.
They did everything that we asked for. They even developed an algorythym that
will upgrade the graphics according to your Operating system without having to
make more than one graphic file for each graphics. No ship1.ECS ship1.STD
ship1.AGA. See, commodore wasn't so dumb when they chose their schemes on color
bitplanes. 
     These guys went to the edge of the tree limbs to bring a product out this
good, they deserve the best in my opinion. May their sales of Ultima Underworld
, Ultima 7, and Wing commander 2 Amiga bring them much dough.

  --- Hope this helps to those who thought I was joking..
   --- Mike.
    Email: davereed@wam.umd.edu

  P.S. -- IMHO, I had to be impressed, this game shows that these people know
how to kick butt in an O.S. friendly environment. Extra kudos for the fact,
I don't have to reboot to load it or exit the game. I can simply run Wing
Commander anytime I just feel like it. Warning, this game does not like
screen blankers, especially machine languaged hacked ones. They advise you to
turn those off when you start the program. If you have an earlier version of
this game, you might want to contact Mindscape and see about getting your
version upgraded.
   I do have 3 megs of total ram, but it should run just as well on a machine
with at least 1.5 megs of total ram(Harddrive users) or just 1 meg(Floppy
users). The speed is acceptable to me,playable at least, on an unnacclerated
machine. Definitely keeps me off the 16Mhz 386 pc systems. Lucky you to the
people who have any accelerator, for it should be enough to really kick up the
frame rate.
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