From: pianoman@misseye.uucp (Alan D. Ray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: AmigaWorld LIES about Amiga Links
Date: 2 Sep 92 21:56:04 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <1992Aug31.094150.7646@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>
>   In the September 1992 issue of AmigaWorld, Bob Hays writes the following at
>the beginning of a review of Amiga Links:
>
>   "A DOUBLE RARITY among Amiga games, LINKS (Access Software, $59.95) was
>written for the Amiga, not simply ported from the MS-DOS version, and it has
>a 4096-color HAM-mode display.  As a result, this golf game looks substantially
>better on the Amiga than on a VGA-mode PC."
>
>    My comments: BULLSHIT!!  BULLSHIT!!  BULLSHIT!!
>
>    The same company -- Access Software -- has developed Links 386 Pro, a
>version of Links that fully utilizes an SVGA display, with 256 colors out of
>262,144 at a resolution of 640x480.  The results make Amiga Links look like
>**CRUD**.  If anyone doubts me on this, take this challenge: obtain the
>September 1992 issue of AmigaWorld and the October 1992 issue of Discover
>Magazine.  Open AmigaWorld to page 70, and open Discover to pages 32&33.  If
>you do not agree that Links 386 Pro makes Amiga Links look like **CRUD**, 
>contact me, as you obviously need your vision corrected, psychological help,
>or both.  The picture in Discover magazine shows a game that looks like a
>damn photograph, while the picture in AmigaWorld shows a game that isn't
>all that much better than games for the C-64.  
>
>   BTW, the list price for Links 386 Pro is a full $20.00 cheaper than the
>list price for Amiga Links: $39.95 for Links 386 Pro compared to $59.95 for 
>Amiga Links.
>

This is definitely not true. The $39.95 price for Links 386 Pro is only
if you are already a registered owner of LINKS. If you own LINKS and
haven't registered, you must either mail or FAX Access a copy of the
inside front cover of your LINKS manual. The actual list price, if
ordering straight from Access, is $69.95 (includes shipping).
This info is from the Sept 92 issue of Computer Gaming World, page
34-35. By the way, an excellent magazine if you're into computer
gaming.

I will agree that Links Pro 386 is beautiful though...I've seen it
on a friend's 486, and it is absolutely stunning. It does have very
high hardware requirements though, to be playable.



>   What is my point about all this?  This is only the beginning for games on
>the IBM platform.  Now that some games have already started coming out that
>support SVGA, more will come.  It will be a *LONG* time before enough Amiga
>systems have sold with AA chipsets to justify software developers producing
>games that support comparable resolutions and color capabilities on the
>Amiga.  
>
>   Due to lack of progress, the "Ultimate Game Machine" is very fast becoming
>the "Ultimate Joke Machine".
>
>---
>| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
>--------------------------------------------------

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