From: davereed@wam.umd.edu (Michael Robert Bromery)
Subject: Re: Wing Commander Amiga (Public Note)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 05:38:39 GMT

    Well, I don't know about you guys. I would say that you're playing the 
wrong version of Wing Commander. With what I see here in front of me, I would
say there's hardly any way you can say that it is an ugly port. If you didn't
like the music on this version, as I said, you wouldn't like it on any.
But obviuosly people dont' read posts and have to drag things on and on. 
As for different versions, i said I was working on it. How many times
do I have to repeat myself on the net? I certainly played my game on my
unaccelerated A500 with all joystick and finished it in no time. I had no
crashes at all, and couldn't figure out how to do anything wicked enough to
this program without phasing it. How did you get it to run slow on an 
A3000? Must've took some work, or I really did get a deal when i got my
copy. They must've done a complete speed overhaul when this version came out.
Those wicked statements about this awesome program, on my computer, they are
downright untrue. Go figure. Well, I'm figuring, wait a bit while I find
some truth here. My copy shows good enough work that if you don't like it,
you don't like Wing commander at all. When I said good music, I didn't mean
true 16-bit sound. I know I'm not speaking to a dense crowd, but get
serious. If you want to complain then just turn the sound off and play your
keyboard while you play the game if you have one. That'll probably be the
only way some folks will be satisfied. 

       To jump on Mindscape on this is not a good sign. If you truly believe
that we may be hurtin' for software support then don't scare off our support.
Mindscape is with us supporting our end with new quality software, I surely
wouldn't want to program for people who are going to be the harshest critics
this world has ever faced IMHO.

     --- Beggars can't be choosers.
    -- But if you want the lowdown, I have a friend that purchased the
Wing commander port and claims 16-color dithering and stuff. I let him
replace his copy with a copy of mine. I'll tell you what he sees or perhaps
he can tell you too. I'm also testing it on an NTSC A3000 as well. 
  So you'll have an European A500 with very much the same config as mine
 but PAL of course. I've gotten quite a few games in my collection now,
I don't see a whole lot of games that sound any better without CD-rom.
I guess I'm just a movie theme fan as well. True music is in many forms.
The shorter your range of tastes, the less that is music to you. Every 
person needs their share of music that is made for them, I'm a strong
believer in that, that's why I studied so many forms.
     Sure 8-bit sound can produce better sound geared for you, but not
a whole lot of truly devastating music has been written for a game, yet.


   ---- Hope this seeps in.(For some people)
 -- Mike
   (Now I'm convinced that absolutely every program in the world can and
     will be called crap by someone from comp.sys.amiga.games.)
    (I would love to see a day when this doesn't happen for one program,
       just one program.)
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