farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren) (11/28/90)
mndaily@ux.acs.umn.edu (Linda Seebach) writes: >4] Starflight: Works under 2.0 or 1.3 or their boot. However: > Under 2.0, the mouse is (almost always) completely useless. They must be > relying on something weird. > Under 1.3, you get little scan lines in the graphics window occasionally. > Under their boot (like, from the disk, or a disk copy) it works fine. This turns out to be them relying on the Workbench video space being free and clear. If you close ALL the windows on Workbench, StarFlight runs just fine, every time. So much for the "Cannot be run from hard disk" claim in the instructions :-) I do think that StarFlight is a fairly crummy job of programming, though. It's way too slow - the "takeoff" sequence runs about four times slower on my 2000 than it did on my 4.77 MHz IBM PC. Something very wrong about that, since I thought it was slow then. And using the WB bitplanes for double buffering, without closing the WB first, is just plain rude. It would have been TRIVIAL for MicroMagic to have allocated some other RAM for their buffering, and to have let the multitasking alone. It also would have been much nicer (but then, when was EA ever concerned about being nice to Amiga owners?). -- Mike Farren farren@well.sf.ca.us