c60a-jd@amazon.Berkeley.EDU (Demian) (03/22/91)
Has anyone tried out Dragon's Lair 2, Faerytale, Robosport, or Sargonoids? I have SoftPC ega/at and I tried to run Kings of the Beach on my Mac...it works but sometimes it's buggy...has anyone encountered the same problem with SoftPC? Thanks.
bluecow@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Tobish E Smith) (03/23/91)
FairyTale - I read on CompuServe that this one was killed. This is from someone who has been beta-testing it for a couple of years. Said the authors were having all sorts of grief with their publisher (or vice versa) and that the program was only so-so anyway. Dragon's Lair 2 - Does this exist? I have Dragon's Lair in color on my Mac II, but didn't know they had plans for a second installment. I called and asked them if they were going to do a color version of Space Ace, and I received a definite NO. Sargonoidz - this is a cute one! It's in color on Macs that do it. It reminds me a little bit of Alice, one of the original Mac games. You have a little face which you move around a chess board. You can move in the four basic directions. You must land on every square on the board before the timer runs out. Once you land on a square, it turns red. There are chess pieces on the board also, and they move around (following chess rules), trying to eat you. Of cours,e you can eat them, too. Once you've made a square red, the chess pieces can't move onto it anymore, so there's a strategy to what you do. The first level consists of all pawns, then a couple of knights are added, etc. It's really pretty in color, too. I'd love this game to pieces if it weren't for the unrespnsiveness of the controls. Even with this, though, it's still pretty fun for a while. I have SoftPC EGA/AT, but haven't tried it for any real games. Tried out some PD IBM games and wasn't too impressed with the performance... Tob bluecow@unix.cis.pitt.edu P.S. Sargonoidz is FreeWare, the others aren't (although I think only RoboSport actually exists out of those three).