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From: jerry@cs.mcgill.ca (Gerald (Jerry) KUCH)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Sierra drops Amiga support... NOT!
Date: 9 Oct 92 16:25:08 GMT
Organization: McGill University, Montreal, Canada

In article <1992Oct8.224607.4880@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c164-as@po.berkeley.edu (Chuck Woo) writes:
>In article <1992Oct8.153736.18693@news.uit.no> borgen@stud.cs.uit.no (Boerge Noest) writes:
>>The 'flame-bait' part comes here: They will have some programmers flown in
>>from England, learning them how to make better use of the Amiga.
>
>no flame war intended, but could some people post lists of US-made amiga
>games that are _actually_ good conversions?  and I don't mean strategy games
>like Civ or SimWhatever, although I'm sure there are plenty of botched 
>"efforts" in that category too.
>I understand the old Pioneer Plague was okay; was that a US-made game?

Pioneer Plague was US-written by Bill Williams, the same guy who wrote Mind
Walker in the Amiga's very early days.  His prior history to these games 
includes some really great old Synapse Software games including Necromancer
and Alley Cat on the old Atari 8-bit machies.



>
>---------------------------------------------///
>Chuck Woo      wchucky@ocf.berkeley.edu     ///
>(bubba buh boo dee do buh boo dee do..) \\\///
>-----------------------------------------\XX/


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  Now take out that brain and flush it down the toilet."
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
From: akiy@cs.titech.ac.jp (Akiyama Jun)
Subject: Re: Amigas in Japan, -> was RE: JAPANESE GAMES AVAILABILITY...
Keywords: amiga Japan Mac
Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology, Computer Science Dept.
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 08:40:48 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.141124.2023@bnr.ca> Rich Anthony writes:
>>
>>>Well, when I did an archie search for the keyword "amiga", I found that 
>>>Tokyo university did have some stuff that you could FTP.  I haven't bothered 
>>>looking to see exactly what is was though.  Look in comp.sys.amiga.
>>>introduction for the full archie search.
>>>
>>>So I guess you can get Amigas over in Japan.  Heck, I heard that recently 
>>>some corporation was distributing Mac's over there! 
>
>   The only American computers that are available are the Macintosh (which is 
>   gaining substantial market share very quickly) and some clone PCs.  They are
>   mostly using NEC and Fujitsu systems.  I doubt if many in Japan have even 
>   heard of the Amiga.  

That's not really true, since I, being an Amiga user on an Education
Abroad Program from California, know first-hand that there are some
Amiga users here in Japan.  I've personally visited three Amiga stores
(although they don't compare to Creative Computers).  Although
admittedly, support for the Amiga here is quite limited, I can still
buy programs, magazines, and hardware here (albeit a lot more
expensive than in the US, probably comparable pricing to that of
mail-ordering through Creative and adding the postage and handling...)
The Amiga over here, like in Europe probably, is considered to be a
game machine.  Of course, although the average layman on the streets probably
don't know of the Amiga, many people (especially at Akihabara, the
electronics-store city) know of it.  

	akiy@cs.titech.ac.jp
From: stelmack@eggo.tmc.edu (Gregory M. Stelmack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Sierra drops Amiga support
Keywords: Sierra On-Line dropped
Date: 9 Oct 92 00:53:29 GMT
Organization: University of South Florida, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

In article <1992Oct5.093227.2465@ugle.unit.no> eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO (Eyvind Bernhardsen) writes:
>Actually, if a British company is gonna convert Sierra games, maybe we won't have
>to put up with direct PC ports (you wanna play a Sierra game on an Amiga?  Get a
>PC emulator (ANY PC emulator); you'll have lots more fun (and it'll be faster,
>too)).  My point is that Sierra aren't using the Amiga well enough... I'd be
>surprised if any Sierra game even touches the blitter, for example.  With a UK-
>based softco, based on creating games which are playable WITHOUT an '040 Amiga,
>we might FINALLY get playable Sierra games.
>

And ONLY without an 040 (or 030 or 020), and ONLY without a harddrive. Or
if it does support these, it'll be buggy (like Civilization). I couldn't
believe that after waiting 3 years for Air Support it was vector graphics and
no harddrive support ... when will they learn???

--
-- Greg Stelmack (stelmack@eggo.csee.usf.edu)
-- FullTime Grad Student, PartTime Amiga Salesman, PartTime Amiga Developer
-- Author of: Spades, Pro Port Analyzer Plus, more to come...
-- DISCLAIMER: The opinions reflected here are mine and mine alone.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Black Crypt
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 21:49:00 +1000

Hello All.
Ok I've missed something, I must have. Even with the cheat section I can't
 find the key to the door at 13,23,2 (the room with the stairs down to the
 third level). How do you open the door? It could be that I need glasses, but I
 can't find any clues as to how to open that door.
Thanks in advance,
D.M.

 * Origin: Empire BBS +61(3)592-5662 (3 lines) (3:635/550)

From: Andrew.Morison@f550.n635.z3.fidonet.org (Andrew Morison)
Sender: acsnet@csource.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: FTP sites which have commercial games?
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 16:38:04 +1000

 DB>	You are in luck!  Yes, there is a major ftp site with most
 DB>commercial games on it.  It even gets them faster than the
 DB>stores do, and
 DB>the copy protection is usually removed.

    I don't know if you know this or not, Daniel, but Federal Police have
 access to these messages, and furthermore have access to University Computers.
 Now that you have given anyone who reads this message, and who has a Uni
 account, access to commercial Pirated stware. The federal Police can now use
 this information to prosecute the oraganisers of this site.

    You have been very stupid, but i wish the Federal police read it and bust
 the people involved.

    Good luck Mounties 8^)

Regards.
    /\/\ozza.

 * Origin: Empire BBS +61(3)592-5662 (3 lines) (3:635/550)
From: natalie@ecr.mu.oz.au (Natalie SIMMANCE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Pirates what do you do
Keywords: need advice
Date: 11 Oct 92 23:49:50 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia


What do you do when some-one offers you pirate software
and he is also from the same place as the other moron
who asked about illegal ftp site ( i.e. ftp sites that have 
illegal amiga software  ).

Do i inform the police who couldn't give a shit about it or do
i inform F.A.S.T who are in england and don't care about 
other countries than europe


See in Australia the rules change there is no company that 
					      ^^^^^^^ i mean organisation
is against pirates. Also most of the organisations that do exist
don't go after teh people who swop or copy hacker software but the people
who make a profit out of it by selling the games to some-one else

If you have any comments to make please contact me via email or post
a news up.



natalie
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From: tmp16@nuscc.nus.sg (temporary account for courses)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: HELP : Shadow of Beast III
Date: 16 Oct 92 10:33:04 GMT
Organization: National University of Singapore

Hi,
   I am stuck at a rather early stage of the game, where there's a
monster chucking barrels down onto water , after the water trap. There's
a table that can be pushed around but I can't seem to get past the
water. Any hint ( or outright spoilers ) welcome. 

Thanks

-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kenneth Ban                       
Dept. of Biochemistry        	    
Faculty of Medicine
From: pcs$1610@altair.selu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Falcon probs w/memory expansion
Date: 13 Oct 92 10:06:14 -0600
Organization: Southeastern Louisiana University

Hi,

I just got a 1 Meg expansion for my A1000, which I like, but for some
reason this causes Falcon (which supposedly supports memory expansions)
to lock up every time I try to load it (first disk loads fine, after I
put the second in it just keeps spinning forever). Other games seem to
work fine, but none of the other ones I have support 1 Meg (and they
all act a bit differently).

Since I have no manuals for either my 1000 or my memory expansion (buying
used equipment has its pitfalls...) I was wondering if there is something
I can do about this, and should I buy any other games which support memory
expansion?

Oh, by the way, it's a Microbotics external expansion.

Thanks,
Scott
From: cregar@tbd2.brl.mil (Raymond Cregar )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Excalibur
Date: 14 Oct 92 19:31:36 GMT

I originally purchased my Amiga because of the simplicity.  I didn't need
to read the box to find out if the game was on 3.5" or 5 1/4" disks.  I
didn't have to worry if I had EGA or VGA graphics.  I find this no longer
holds true.

I recently picked up the game box for "Excalibur".  The sticker said it
was for the 500, 1000, 2500, & 3000.  This is great, especially since I
have the 2000.  I assume it will not play on my machine.  Can someone
explain why?  I always thought Amiga was Amiga and as long as the box was
Amiga, all I had to do was shove the disk in.  What has made life so complex?

Also, I'm still looking for a solution to the garage and Rose Cottage in
the game "Personal Nightmare".  I never received an answer to my 3
prior posts.  In fact, I have never received an answer to any post.  Am
I posting wrong?

My thanks to any kind soul who responds,
Raymond D. (novice) Cregar
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
From: uzun@crash.cts.com (Roger Uzun)
Subject: Wizardry VII, Crusaders out for PC, Feb for Amiga
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: 07 Oct 92 13:29:09 PDT

Well, Wizardry VII, Crusaders of the Dark Savante is availablke
for the PC now, and is due out in Feb for the Amiga.
Hope they make it on time.
Dark Suns, the new AD&D Series from SSI, is due out in
Mid December for the PC, no Amiga release date yet.

-Roger
--------------------------------------------------------------
bix: ruzun
NET: uzun@crash.cts.com
From: havardn@edb.tih.no (Haavard Nesse,o92a)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Willy Beamish - HELP NEEDED!!
Date: 7 Oct 92 10:12:27 GMT
Reply-To: havardn@edb.tih.no
Posting-Front-End: Winix Conference v 92.05.15  1.20 (running under MS-Windows)

Help, I can't get past the "Bat Babysitter"! I know that I should use 
the vacuum-cleaner in some way, but I can't get the babysitter close
enough. Can anyone help me?
                                   Havard N.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
From: ah@ruble.fml.tuwien.ac.at (Andreas Haleger)
Subject: Summary: Elite: how long to play
Keywords: Elite
Organization: Technical University of Vienna
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:49:36 GMT


>Hello world,
>my game time is about two days and ten hours and I am dangerous.
>My question: How long does it last to get deadly and elite and what
>do these silly messages "Right on, Commander" mean ?
>Thank you.

Well,
A RoC message seems to appear after killing 256 items, including asteroids  
and cargo canisters.
gandalf@diku.dk (Morten Due J|rgensen) wrote: You get deadly at
655360 points, and Elite at 1638400 points.
I also read that there are five missions, but I could'nt verify this.  
Please correct me if it's wrong.

My personal thoughts: finish the missions and give it up (I did the fifth  
mission some days ago and have about 380000 points). Further wait for  
Elite II.

Thank you for replying
== Andreas ==
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
From: davereed@wam.umd.edu (Michael Robert Bromery)
Subject: Zool & Fire and Ice.
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 04:37:07 GMT

 Hey guys! I happened to look at two awesome looking demos called Fire and
   Ice and Zool, but what I was wondering was which one I should get first.
  Right no, I can only afford one of them and I kind of want the best of the
  two. I see that the graphics in Fire and Ice look very hard to beat, VERY
  and that includes the other computers as well, in fact i may want to keep
  that in my work of art collection, but I hear about different spells in Zool
  and all the animations in Zool that make it seem(but not proven) that there
  may be more depth of gameplay. I kind of want something that is thrilling,
  graphically and have good depth in gameplay. After looking at these demos,
  I figured the only ones that would know are the ones that have played through
  them so if there is any thoughts on what you liked more bout one than the othr
    I like to know. Besides, I really like to know what Europe has to offer in
  platform games in which I hear alot of aclaim between these very two titles.
     Thanks in advance,
               Mike

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
From: crichard@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (christopher richards)
Subject: Putty
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:46:16 GMT

I just played a demo of Putty I got off the cover of a European Amiga
magazine (why are all European Amiga magazines so much better than American
Amiga magazines?) and really like it.  Is Putty available here in the States
yet?

Chris R

Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.games:14119 comp.sys.ibm.pc.games:17353
From: f1toyl@uta.fi (Topi Ylinen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Civ: now _this_ is *ridiculous*!!
Date: 16 Oct 92 10:10:02 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Tampere, Finland

I know full well that Civilization is not an overtly realistic game. I also
understand that almost every unit stands at least some chance of winning in 
any given combat. Fair enough. But when you have the combat luck of the very
unfortunate prince Gobbledigook! of the Aztecs, you can only complain.
All these ridiculous things happened to poor Gobbledigook yesterday:
	
	-A chariot got killed by a barbarian diplomat
		
	-A bomber was shot down by barbarian musqueteers. Now, some may argue
	 that the appropriate term for these units is "guerillas" and thus, 
	 they are equipped with modern rifles. But I have two pieces of 
	 evidence, which I hope will show they shot my bomber down with 
	 musquets. 1) there is a different counter for gunmen with modern
	 firearms (Riflemen) and 2) if you buy a guerilla with a diplomat,
 	 you will get a musqueteer unit. And I do not find it very convincing
	 that they change their weaponry to antique firearms if you buy them...

	-Better yet, another of Gobbledigook!'s (the name, btw, refers to 
	 the Aztec cities, which I find very aptly named) bombers was 
	 destroyed by barbarian knights! Now, was he flying too low or 
	 what!

I guess these are quite modest examples and many of you will have experienced
worse. But they all happened in the same game (the losses of 2 bombers almost
consecutively)... and during 2 h of real time. And yes, all these units were
veteran units. So the bomber fliers had their licenses in order!

Finally... I love communism - NOT in real life, though!
But in Civ, yes.
Why?
Simply because your cabinet looks great!



--
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TOPI YLINEN		f1toyl@kielo.uta.fi
=============================================================================
The brotherbeat to any bull-eyed bulbomasons with an applemeter of
blunderblood in his veins... the philo-oxidative paygreen pathofinder,
a terror firmly tiger-belted in a toad-twisting taxbus.
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From: u0g78@keele (Kharanth elMorak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Anyone played Zool?
Date: 8 Oct 92 12:20:24 GMT
Organization: Keele University, England

I wish I could.

Can anyone tell me the _absolute_ minimum configuration to play it.

On my KS1.2 A500, with 4.5Meg RAM (0.5 of which is chip) it gets as far as
displaying 'press fire to start' then crashes, guru 3, or 4.

Is it a problem with my machine, or with the game??

Cheers,
	Martin.
--
Martin N. Steed		You may be a king, Or a little street sweeper,
			But sooner or later, You dance with the Reaper.
JANET:    u0g78@uk.ac.keele.seq1	-The Grim Reaper,
InterNet: u0g78@seq1.keele.ac.uk		Bill & Teds Bogus Journey.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
From: ad487@yfn.ysu.edu (Samuel DiRocco)
Subject: Re: more civilization questions from a novice
Organization: Youngstown State University/Youngstown Free-Net
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 19:12:11 GMT


	Well I havent figured out how to get onto any boat yet, I'm still new
also.  I have figured out the taxman query though, first got to the City
Display screen and in the city map display you will see what that city is
producing, click on something , wheat for instance, now you have an 
entertainer in your population roster.  To change the entertainer into
a taxman click on him, click on the taxman to change it into a scientist.
-- 
From: Argon 238
		Dear Conan,
			    "Werewolves were gloves, keep hands warm."
No Fate but the Destiny you create!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
From: lrfox@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (linda ream fox)
Subject: Idle Neuromancer Question
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 07:43:38 GMT

I finished the game this afternoon without it, but can anyone tell me if
there's a way to get past Maas Biolabs Virus to get the Cybereyes, or is it
just a red herring?


  Thanks

 LRFox
From: amigaman+@pitt.edu (Russell A Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Shadow of the Beast III
Keywords: SOB, Shadow
Date: 13 Oct 92 22:29:40 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh


  I just purchased a copy of Shadow of the Beast III yesterday and am stuck.
If you've played the game, you'll know what I'm talking about...

(1)  Has anyone got enough silver balls over so that you can roll the marble
 slab far enough to use it?

(2) Has anyone been able to get the door open over where the ice blocks and
the furnace are?

BTW, SoB III is really neat (although much easier IMHO than SoB II).
-- 
--
Russ Howard
Internet:  amigaman+@pitt.edu
BIX:       russhoward
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
From: davec@comspec.com (Dave Carlton)
Subject: Re: Elite (original 8 bit)
Reply-To: davec@comspec.com (Dave Carlton)
Organization: Comspec Communications - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 08:25:22 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.games
Disclaimer: Comspec Communications knows nothing of what I write.

 -[ Adrian Hurt writes ]:
| >the 3rd galaxy, you could get the message "Coming soon - Elite II".

 ...and soon it comes... A few years later, but from the U.K. mags i've 
managed to get a look at, what a sequel! Details everywhere, in the dock,
on the planets, the NUMEROUS ships... (Really, i'm speechless 8^)

Gah. all this talk of Elite has me hooking up my 64 again! Aaargh. Oh well..
At least this way it leaves one to do real work still.. 
---
Dave Carlton - davec@comspec.com | Path:  uunet.ca!comspec!davec
-- 
Dave Carlton - davec@comspec.com | Path:  uunet.ca!comspec!davec
Though Comspec Communications graciously allows me to post, I
From: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Amigas in Japan, -> was RE: JAPANESE GAMES AVAILABILITY...
Date: 13 Oct 92 16:27:51 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

10667547@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (JIMMY FANG) writes:

>Well, when I did an archie search for the keyword "amiga", I found that 
>Tokyo university did have some stuff that you could FTP.  I haven't bothered 
>looking to see exactly what is was though.  Look in comp.sys.amiga.
>introduction for the full archie search.

>So I guess you can get Amigas over in Japan.  Heck, I heard that recently 
>some corporation was distributing Mac's over there!

A little while ago, someone from Japan told us something about a good 
Amiga dealer in Japan, so the Amiga should be available in Japan--popularity
is another question.

Actually, among Japanese, I would imagine there are computer-fanatics who
read American computer magazines and learn about different computers.

I cant speak for Japan.  However, Amigas are known to a lot of Taiwanese/
Hong Kong computer fanatics.  I remember in 85/86, I read the 
annoucement of A1000.  I was very excited, and finally found out an Amiga
dealer and took a look at the machine. (I was in Hong Kong)
I was very impressed at that time--
I was still an Apple II+ user at that time.  So, I think for those who
really cares, it doesn't matter where they reside, they will still learn
about the Amiga if they really want to.  

Of course, the majority of Japanese wouldn't know about the Amiga, but heck,
the majority of Americans have never heard of an Amiga either! :)\

Yours Sincerely,
Kelvin
e-mail: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
From: kbos@carina.unm.edu (Kurt "Some Guy" Bose)
Subject: Re: FTP sites which have commercial games?
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 10:16:10 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <39470@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> orovner@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Oleg Rovner) writes:
>Warning Dan, the Federal Police are onto the SCUM site! Run away!
>I am sending you this via e-mail so that you will have a chance to
>relocate.... 
>
>It is an ugly story. They broke in, somehow disabled the trip wire
>alarms on the ffo.kcuf machine, and knew enough to use the remal
>backdoor instead of the usual deahkcid logon. Somebody must've
>tipped them off, this past hour there have been nothing but burly
>guys with badgers sniffing around lookin for kewl warez!

Badgers!?!?!?   Badgers!?!?!?!

They don't need no stinkin' badgers!


-- 
Kurt Bose (as in Daisy, not Rose) * kbos@carina.unm.edu * Make outs, not walks!
Keeper of the R.S.BB FAQ, and Junior Stathead {tm} * Maintainer, R.S.BB Archive
Be kind. Don't flame the mediots. * Look, stupid comments are funny!'-R. Lustig
I'd rather see Doug Dascenzo pitch than suffer through John Burkett's batting..
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
From: jshearer@sandbox.kenn.wa.us (Jeff Shearer)
Subject: The Lord of the Rings
Organization: The Sandbox, Public Access HP-UX
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 21:13:30 GMT

Hi all,
      I'm currently playing Interplay's "Lord of the Rings".  I have gone
through the shire and the old forest.  Near the end of my trip through the Old
Forest I passed over a large raised mound.  While I was reading in the library
in Brandy Hall, I found a reference to an aratifact called the Spring Stone
that is buried in a hill South and East of the Old Forest.  Is the raised
mound the hill that the book refered to?  I've tried to use a shovel on the
hill, but nothing happens.  Any help would be appreciated.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games