jkh@meepmeep.pcs.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) (02/26/91)
Nice game, lots of detail, but very slow and jerky update speed on a stock Amiga. I've heard several people say that it runs very nicely on accellerated Amigas/A3000's, so I'm hanging onto my copy for the day when I finally move up. On an A500 with 2.5MB of memory, though, I find it too slow to play. It's stayed in its box since the second day I've owned it. Sigh. It's funny. FA/18 is like TFH's opposite twin. Great "feel" and fighting speed, but pretty thin in the missions dept. If TFH had FA/18's basic feel, without sacrificing the mission detail, I'd probably starve to death from forgetting to eat. :-) Jordan -- PCS Computer Systeme GmbH, Munich, West Germany UUCP: pyramid!pcsbst!jkh jkh@meepmeep.pcs.com EUNET: unido!pcsbst!jkh ARPA: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu or hubbard@decwrl.dec.com
opus@cbnewsc.att.com (robin.g.kim) (02/26/91)
In article <JKH.91Feb25190315@meepmeep.pcs.com>, jkh@meepmeep.pcs.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: > Nice game, lots of detail, but very slow and jerky update speed on > a stock Amiga. > It's stayed in its box since the second day I've owned it. Sigh. > > Jordan I believe this has been mentioned before, but in case you missed it, here it is again. You can sacrifice ground detail for speed using Alt-G. There are three levels of this. At the highest level of detail, the game is quit slow, and ground looks patchy (farmland?). At the middle level, the ground has no detail except for targets and the coastline. At the lowest level, you can still see ground targets, but the rest of the Earth looks entirely green or blue, depending on whether you are directly over land or water, respectively. I always play at this level, except when I want to fly home from the Channel, when it's useful to switch briefly to the middle mode to see where the land starts. The game is quite fast when there is no ground detail, and gets faster and faster as you shoot down enemy planes, to the point where it's almost too fast when there are just one or two left, but then you can always switch to a higher level of ground detail. I enjoy this game quite a bit. Like you, when I first got it I was extremely disappointed at the update speed, having been completely spoiled by Falcon. Once I tried reducing the level of detail, though, it became one of my favorite games do to its variety of missions and planes you can fly. I look forward to the sequel, Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, for even more variety and some of my favorite WWII planes (P-51 and Me262!). Hope this helps, Robin Kim
fsadl@acad3.alaska.edu (LOOMIS ANDREW D) (02/27/91)
In article <JKH.91Feb25190315@meepmeep.pcs.com>, jkh@meepmeep.pcs.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes... >Nice game, lots of detail, but very slow and jerky update speed on >a stock Amiga. I've heard several people say that it runs very nicely >on accellerated Amigas/A3000's, so I'm hanging onto my copy for the day >when I finally move up. On an A500 with 2.5MB of memory, though, I find >it too slow to play. It's stayed in its box since the second day I've owned >it. Sigh. > >It's funny. FA/18 is like TFH's opposite twin. Great "feel" and fighting >speed, but pretty thin in the missions dept. If TFH had FA/18's basic >feel, without sacrificing the mission detail, I'd probably starve to death >from forgetting to eat. :-) The only problem which i have with Their Finest Hour is the long wait while it is loading, accessing the map, etc. Once the game is running the speed is sufficient on my 500 with 1meg. I prefer it to the jet fighter simulations I've played but that is primarily because I prefer the seat of your pants dogfighting with only .30 cal machine guns to killing from miles away with radar and missiles. Andrew Loomis Bitnet: FSADL@ALASKA Internet: FSADL@ACAD3.ALASKA.EDU I must be a bush pilot; I learned to fly in Alaska.
colas@avahi.inria.fr (Colas Nahaboo) (02/28/91)
In article <JKH.91Feb25190315@meepmeep.pcs.com>, jkh@meepmeep.pcs.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: > If TFH had FA/18's basic > feel, without sacrificing the mission detail, I'd probably starve to death > from forgetting to eat. :-) I think you are going to lose weight if you try Wings by cinemaware :-) -- Colas Nahaboo, colas@sa.inria.fr, Bull Research, Koala Project, GWM X11 WM Phone:(33) 93.65.77.70(.66 Fax), INRIA, B.P.109 - 06561 Valbonne Cedex, FRANCE.