From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
Subject: Re: Critical mass getting bigger?
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 02:37:58 GMT

In article <10667547.163.715998171@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au> 10667547@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (JIMMY FANG) writes:
>In article <1992Sep8.152217.21004@newshost.unh.edu> ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene) writes:
>>From: ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene)
>>Subject: Re: Critical mass getting bigger? - was re: AmigaWorld Lies about Links
>>Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 15:22:17 GMT
>>>It seams with a lot of these new RPG (which I happen to like) is that is 
>>>just adding more of the same without putting anything new into the genre.
>>
>>	I would say Ultima Underworld is pretty inovative.
>
>I haven't seen this.  How much hard-drive real-estate does it take up?  None 
>of my PC owning friends seem to want to spend more than 5meg (of h/d real-
>estate) on a game and won't pay more than $0 dollars for it.  So I doubt I 
>see it in action.  I've haven't seen Wing Commander yet either...  Piracy is 
>getting pretty rampant over on the pc-side.  I don't know anyone who has the 
>original Windows package!

It take 9 megs w/o the LONG LONG digitized speech + animation intro scenes
(and maybe at the end, I haven't finished it yet).  With it, it take 13 megs.

WCI takes 4-5 megs, I think.  WCII take ~20 megs.  As does Ultima 7.
I DO suggest making 13 megs of space on a VGA+Soundblaster PC and getting
Ultima Underworld.

Remember how TOTALLY FREAKING AWESOME Dungeon Master was when it first came
out?  Well....I've finished Dungeon Master...and Ultima Underworld puts DM
to shame! Comparing Underworld to DM is like comparing DM to...overhead-shot
RPGs.  Really - I loved DM but Ultima Underworld is SO good.

And I might make a very positive note for Eye of the Beholder.  Is it
available for the Amiga yet?

>>	Lets wait and see what Commodore releases and at what price its
>>   gonna cost.  If the AA chipset machines are priced like the 040 A3000T,
>>   not many game software compaines are going to support the AA chipset.
>>   
>>							G.Greene
>
>I'll be interested in what the prices are going to be like.  I read a quote 
>from a Commodore engineering talking about "new technology" and "
>competitively priced" in reply to criticisms on "internet"? in a magazine.
>If the new machines aren't well priced, I'll be getting a '386dx clone too.
>I'll keep my amiga though, as it's an interesting machine.  I sold/junked my 
>Vic-20, Commodore-64, Apple clone, IBM XT clone, so it's the only machine I 
>have ever considered keeping.

Unless you want to get, say, a 486 instead.  Depending on your machine,
you *might* sell it enough to get a mega-486.  Considered it?

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