lbrown@apctrc.UUCP (Lawrence H. Brown) (10/15/87)
In article <5850@sunybcs.UUCP> ugmiker@sunybcs.UUCP (Michael Reilly) writes: > >T'anks.... > Mike(r) >P.S. Talking about tanks, where can I get the frontline people >have been talking about??? sounds cool.... The name of the game, correct meif I'm wrong (doubt it just bought the game) is FIREPOWER! It has 3 play modes: 2 player split screen, vrs computer, or via modem. This game is great! the sound and graphics are as good as an arcade machine! Playability is good too. I haven't tried the modem, so I don't know how well it works. Breaking it down this way: Graphics: B+ Sound: B- (all those explosions get jarring after 2 hours, but WAR is Heck!) :-) Playability: B- (minor nits...read on.) Multitasks: No 1.2 Kiskstart: yes runs with xtra memory: not sure, person had problems using with Spirit board...netters? Surviability: Only one crash, after many hours of continuous play... B- Copy protection: Yes, but can be backed up with Quicknibble or MauraderII. Documentation: None. All rules tips and instructions are on the disk. Price: For only $24.00 it was a must buy program. Hopefully the low(er) price will keep the pirates at bay. (Lets not get into a discussion on this...heard it all before) Writes to master: Nope. Ran fat-n-happy with a copy. Nits: Some documentation would have been a boon. Details on the tanks used would have added to the understanding of the game. You can get stuck way to easy....have to wait for the choppers to come blow you away. (Killed a 100 just stuck between buildings. They almost never touched me. Dropping mines is a pain. If you're not really carefull you blow yourself up. I'd like to have a function key blip you out of a tight, stuck place, as a last resort and at a high penalty cost. Waiting to die is boring. BTW, pressing <funtion key 1> will abort the game. Also like to see some way of dropping mines other than the current way. maybe a funtion key mapped to the same instruction or something. This is another canidate for the mapping team. There is more than one map, too. I may do it myself and if I do I'll post results and or ask for help. My current high score is 4825. (solo mode) I'd love to challenge someone... This is a good game, and I'd like to see more like it, so please don't pirate it. -- Lawrence H. Brown USENET: ...!uunet!apctrc!cdf!zlhb0a or zlhb0a@cdf.apctrc.uucp (?) Phone: (918-660-4389) 24 hrs, voice. USmail: 7325 E. 50th, Tulsa, OK 74145 Disclaimer: I paid 25 cents to see the light. Call it cheap entertainment.
bcphssrw@csun.UUCP (Stephen R. Walton) (10/16/87)
In article <30730@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes: > >What Bryce said is correct, except the game was MicroIllusions 'FirePower' >which could easily be billed as the ultimate tank game. > >Each player has a home base, one has green features, and the other has >brown features. About 10% of American males are colorblind, and most of them are "green blind" -- green == uncolored for us. That means a green surface looks brown, and green light (i.e., a traffic light) looks white. Sure hope MicroIllusions allows those colors to be changed to something sensible--red and blue, just to pick two at random :-).
glee@cognos.uucp (Godfrey Lee) (10/17/87)
You didn't mention what type of copy protection this game has, and whether Maurauder can unprotect it? I don't steal software, and I am leaning towards not buying any software that cannot be copied or cannot be installed on hard disk, or any other kind of obstructive copy protection. I don't even like the word from the manual type copy protection, but at least that one is "harmless". -- Godfrey Lee P.O. Box 9707 Cognos Incorporated 3755 Riverside Dr. VOICE: (613) 738-1440 FAX: (613) 738-0002 Ottawa, Ontario UUCP: decvax!utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!glee CANADA K1G 3Z4
cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) (10/19/87)
In article <1585@tao.UUCP> glee@tao.UUCP (Godfrey Lee) writes: >You didn't mention what type of copy protection this game has, and whether >Maurauder can unprotect it? Yes, it is copy protected and no, I don't know if Marauder can unprotect it. --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.
blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) (10/19/87)
in article <30730@sun.uucp>, cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) says: > What Bryce said is correct, except the game was MicroIllusions 'FirePower' > which could easily be billed as the ultimate tank game. And since it was > played for 38 hrs straight by several people I think I can give it a fairly > good review here : Agreed! This is a great game, especially when played with an oponent on the other side of town. > Another highly publicized but poorly implemented feature was multiplayer > through the serial port mode. At Hackers we had two Amigae connected > together via a null modem cable. Unfortunately, FirePower wanted to see > a modem on the serial line. It refused to connect without some sort of > AT type handshake going on. This was a big disappointment. Worked fine for us at Saturday's user's group meeting. We just set the "number to dial" requester to a blank line, hit "Dial", and then "Start Game". It fired right up. The next half hour or so was spent playing on the two machines, side-by-side, with a crowd at least 5 deep crowded around us. Does you cable carry all the lines needed (CD, TR, MR)? I have no idea what is required, but my cable does have all of the above wired. -- Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland 540 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108 UUCP Address: {ihnp4,ucbvax,decvax,allegra}!decwrl!esunix!blgardne {ihnp4,seismo}!utah-cs!esunix!blgardne "I don't see no points on your ears boy, but you sound like a Vulcan!"
lbrown@apctrc.UUCP (Lawrence H. Brown) (10/21/87)
In article <31231@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes: >In article <1585@tao.UUCP> glee@tao.UUCP (Godfrey Lee) writes: >>You didn't mention what type of copy protection this game has, and whether >>Maurauder can unprotect it? > >Yes, it is copy protected and no, I don't know if Marauder can unprotect it. > Yes it can be backed up with either Maurader or Quicknibble. (yo-ho!) I hope that the lower price of this product coupled with its great playablity will discourage people from pirating this program.. I'd like to see more like this one come out. On a cute side note, my buddy's 3 yr old son sat down in front of the A500 in the store (it had firepower loaded) and got the game running. He was able to quickly figure out the method of driving and the gun controls. He then ran up a score twice as high as one of the salesladies who also likes the game. (thats interesting...my wife also likes the game...thats rare) -- Lawrence H. Brown USENET: ...!uunet!apctrc!cdf!zlhb0a or zlhb0a@cdf.apctrc.uucp (?) Phone: (918-660-4389) 24 hrs, voice. USmail: 7325 E. 50th, Tulsa, OK 74145 Disclaimer: I paid 25 cents to see the light. Call it cheap entertainment.
CRONEJP@UREGINA1.BITNET (Jonathan Crone) (11/28/87)
I finally succumbed to temptation and purchased firepower and i'm happy to say, that everyone is correct... it is great game.... Two minor gripes..... I wish there were more maps for the game... i played 5 games of two player mode and had the same map three times... BORING... Second gripe... Is there an object to the One player mode other than rescue guys and kill every thing???? I still haven't found the flag if there is one and i've tried thats for sure.... there are several bunkers on the map that i've found and destroyed. i however haven't found the FLAG inside the bunkers..... Sigh... Jonathan Pithy Saying 01010 GLAR!!!!
dykimber@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Daniel Yaron Kimberg) (08/06/88)
Could someone mail me a public ftp path for where i can find the pd screen
editor for fire power (unless I'm misremembering this). Thanks,
-Dan