11TSTARK@GALLUA.BITNET (Timothy Stark) (06/22/89)
Hello Users:
Starflight:
I heard that new Starflight game come from Electronic Arts for IBM
only but I do not like that IBM-only games. I wish that Electronic
Arts shall port it to other personal computers for Amiga, etc..
But, it never come for other personal computers in many years. Why???
When it will release to Amiga version? I shall complaint that.
Quarterstaff:
It come from infocom last year. It is for Mac, Apple IIGS, and
IBM. Where is Amiga? Does Infocom plan to port it to Amiga? When it
will release to Amiga version because Amiga have enough memory to
handle Quarterstaff?
Thanks!
-- Tim Stark
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"Gallaudet University is the only university for the deaf in the world."disd@hubcap.clemson.edu (Gary Heffelfinger) (06/22/89)
From article <8906221210.AA02877@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, by 11TSTARK@GALLUA.BITNET (Timothy Stark): > Starflight: > > I heard that new Starflight game come from Electronic Arts for IBM > only but I do not like that IBM-only games. I wish that Electronic > Arts shall port it to other personal computers for Amiga, etc.. > But, it never come for other personal computers in many years. Why??? > When it will release to Amiga version? I shall complaint that. I wrote to EA a year or 2 ago asking the very same question, and got a polite letter back from them saying that they had no plans at this time to do an Amiga port. Apparently that has changed. A friend of mine who works at a software retailer, evidently called EA and asked them about it. I seems that they're planning to release an Amiga port and a C64 port this year. We'll see. I'd like to think that my letter had something to do with it, but it's probably more the fact that there are 1 million Amigas now that did it. > > Quarterstaff: As far as I know, Infocom is planning to do an Amiga port. That effort might be slowed now that Mediagenic has "relocated" the Infocom staff. Gary -- Father of Kathryn Leigh Heffelfinger ------ disd@hubcap.clemson.edu ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Now 9 lbs, 10 oz, 21.5", and 4 weeks of wonderful stuff.
farren@well.UUCP (Mike Farren) (07/03/89)
(Gary Heffelfinger) writes: >> I heard that new Starflight game come from Electronic Arts for IBM >> only but I do not like that IBM-only games. I wish that Electronic >> Arts shall port it to other personal computers for Amiga, etc.. >> But, it never come for other personal computers in many years. Why??? >> When it will release to Amiga version? I shall complaint that. > >I wrote to EA a year or 2 ago asking the very same question, and got a >polite letter back from them saying that they had no plans at this time >to do an Amiga port. Apparently that has changed. I offered to do the Amiga port for EA a couple of years ago. StarFlight was written in Forth, and EA's position at that time was that there was no way that the conversion could be done in any economically feasible way. Converting Forth programs (from my own experience doing it) is one bitch of a job, since Forth so strongly encourages every malign hacker instinct, and Forth programs are more often than not impenatrable masses of spaghetti code. EA felt that they couldn't afford to pay anyone enough to be able to get the project done and still make money on it. By the way - did you notice that one of the original demo pictures in DPaint is an illo for StarFlight? >I seems that they're planning to release an Amiga port and a C64 >port this year. We'll see. They have said this consistently from day one. Talk to the technical folks instead of the marketing folks before you hold your breath. -- Mike Farren farren@well.sf.ca.usa