manes@vger.nsu.edu (12/29/90)
Greetings one and all!
I just had an opportunity over the Christmas break to play Gyrus on the
Commodore 64. Has _anyone_ seen this game done for the Amiga? It was
a nice trip down memory lane when I wapred to Uranus! I used to play
this one in the arcades as well!
I sure wish some of the old "classics" would be written for the Amiga.
I would love to see Joust, Wizard of Wor and a real Pacman!
-mark=
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hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland) (12/29/90)
In article <399.277ba5fe@vger.nsu.edu> manes@vger.nsu.edu writes:
!>Greetings one and all!
!>
!>I just had an opportunity over the Christmas break to play Gyrus on the
!>Commodore 64. Has _anyone_ seen this game done for the Amiga? It was
!>a nice trip down memory lane when I wapred to Uranus! I used to play
!>this one in the arcades as well!
!>
!>I sure wish some of the old "classics" would be written for the Amiga.
!>I would love to see Joust, Wizard of Wor and a real Pacman!
While you're at it, lets see versions of M.U.L.E., Lords Of Conquest,
Racing Destruction Set and Pinball Construction Set. All games worth
keeping your old C64 for.
-Moriland
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\X/ "Only Amiga Makes It Possible." | hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.educs170703644@vger.nsu.edu (12/29/90)
> !> > !>I sure wish some of the old "classics" would be written for the Amiga. > !>I would love to see Joust, Wizard of Wor and a real Pacman! > > While you're at it, lets see versions of M.U.L.E., Lords Of Conquest, > Racing Destruction Set and Pinball Construction Set. All games worth > keeping your old C64 for. > > -Moriland There is an Amiga version of a pinball construction set. It is called Power Pinball, and is put out by KarmaSoft. It offers a lot of features, including the capability to import and use your own pre- digitized IFF and sound files. It is still a far cry from the real thing, however; I have yet to get so caught up that I try to tilt the keyboard. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | werjun@large | I'm so sick of hearing about Elvis. | + cs170703644@vger.nsu.edu + I wish he was dead! + | | | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
vcp6840@isc.rit.edu (V.C. Povilaitis) (12/30/90)
In article <399.277ba5fe@vger.nsu.edu> manes@vger.nsu.edu writes: >Greetings one and all! > >... >I sure wish some of the old "classics" would be written for the Amiga. >I would love to see Joust, Wizard of Wor and a real Pacman! > > -mark= > There's money to be made porting the classics to the new computers! My friends and I always wish that we could play those oldies without dragging out those old computers. Didja notice that Oil's Well from Sierra has been re-done for PC's using new VGA graphics, animated intermissions, and new sound/music? I hope this will be a trend!!! -Vitas P.- -- -Vitas P.- | 22 Wolcott Avenue, Rochester, NY 14606 Rochester | vcp6840@ritvax.bitnet or vcp6840@ultb.isc.rit.edu Institute | ...![allegra, seismo, or rutgers]!rochester!ultb!vcp6840 of Technology | SOMETHING HAS TO WORK AROUND HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland) (12/30/90)
In article <403.277c79d5@vger.nsu.edu> cs170703644@vger.nsu.edu writes:
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%>> While you're at it, lets see versions of M.U.L.E., Lords Of Conquest,
%>> Racing Destruction Set and Pinball Construction Set. All games worth
%>> keeping your old C64 for.
%>>
%>> -Moriland
%>There is an Amiga version of a pinball construction set. It is called
%>
%>Power Pinball, and is put out by KarmaSoft. It offers a lot of
%>features, including the capability to import and use your own pre-
%>digitized IFF and sound files. It is still a far cry from the real thing,
%>however; I have yet to get so caught up that I try to tilt the keyboard.
%>
I have tried Power Pinball. I repeat my cry for a REAL version of
Pinball Construction Set. (One was promised by EA, but they never did
it.) Power Pinball is sad. Sad sad sad sad sad sad sad sad. Don't buy
it. Don't think about buying it. Don't even believe it exists and pray
someone makes a real one.
-Moriland
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\X/ "Only Amiga Makes It Possible." | hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edupilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted) (12/30/90)
manes@vger.nsu.edu writes: >I sure wish some of the old "classics" would be written for the Amiga. >I would love to see Joust, Wizard of Wor and a real Pacman! I too. Why do not anyone want to make a Joust game? I am weirdoly crazed with this game, especially in the arcades. And Racing Destruction .. on the C64, at least someone should make some- thing like this! Did you know, that it is possible to build a ramp and drive up it so fast, that you fly of the playing area and out into the RAM or ROM, where you of course explode. The concept of this game is not outdated at all, but I could imagine a poor version being made, like SEUCK for the Amiga.
gl11+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory James Legowski) (12/30/90)
While we're talking about classic games, let's not forget some of the classics of the arcade that never made it home. I'm thinking of games like Tempest and Sinistar. And of course classics from the C64--Gyruss, Wizard of Wor, BluePrint (anyone else remember this one--I still have the cart but not a working C64!) I could spend HOURS coming up with a "classics" list I'd love to see done, but I don't have the experience on the Amiga I'd need (I'm mostly a <GASP!!> IBM-compatible user/programmer) to do true justice to any of them... Sigh... Anyone feel like picking up a project? :-) (What would the legal status on copies of "older" games like these be? Wouldn't want to get myself sued if I ever DID manage to program one... Just covering my tracks before I make them...) Greg Legowski | gl11@andrew.cmu.edu | Whatever it was, I didn't do it...
lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) (12/30/90)
In <403.277c79d5@vger.nsu.edu>, cs170703644@vger.nsu.edu writes: >There is an Amiga version of a pinball construction set. It is called >Power Pinball, and is put out by KarmaSoft. It offers a lot of >features, including the capability to import and use your own pre- >digitized IFF and sound files. It is still a far cry from the real thing, >however; I have yet to get so caught up that I try to tilt the keyboard. Awright! (but I hate to have to ask the following question) Is it copy protected? -larry -- The best way to accelerate an MsDos machine is at 32 ft/sec/sec. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
cs170703644@vger.nsu.edu (01/01/91)
> >>There is an Amiga version of a pinball construction set. It is called >>Power Pinball, and is put out by KarmaSoft. It offers a lot of >>features, including the capability to import and use your own pre- >>digitized IFF and sound files. It is still a far cry from the real thing, >>however; I have yet to get so caught up that I try to tilt the keyboard. > > Awright! (but I hate to have to ask the following question) Is it copy > protected? > > -larry > It is not copy-protected, to the best of my memory. (I haven't played with it for a while.) If I remember correctly, I was able to copy the master disk to play around with. Jean
rodan@wpi.WPI.EDU (Daniel Hunt) (01/04/91)
In article <399.277ba5fe@vger.nsu.edu> manes@vger.nsu.edu writes: >Greetings one and all! > >I just had an opportunity over the Christmas break to play Gyrus on the >Commodore 64. Has _anyone_ seen this game done for the Amiga? It was >a nice trip down memory lane when I wapred to Uranus! I used to play >this one in the arcades as well! > >I sure wish some of the old "classics" would be written for the Amiga. >I would love to see Joust, Wizard of Wor and a real Pacman! > > -mark= I *Couldn't* Agree more. when is some company going to realize that it's worth their while to wade through the red tape and bring these classics to the amiga! wow. what translations they could make. As for a *REAL* pacman, I 've got a PD european version that's *identical* to the original in almost every respect. e-mail me if you want me to upload it to an ftp site you can get to. They don't make games like that anymore..... At least not half as often...
bart@asgard.pub.uu.oz.au (John Butcher) (01/06/91)
With all this talk about "classic" games, one has to ask, Is there any amiga versions of Galaga ?, there was a good one called Galaxy on the ol' 64, but Ive never seen an amiga one !! +---------------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | John Butcher : bart@asgard.pub.uu.oz.au | Black Bart's seen it, | | ...!uunet!asgard.pub.uu.oz.au!bart | Black Bart knows. ;) | +---------------------------------------------------+-----------------------+
diogenes@bbs.sbs.com (Charles Bandes) (01/07/91)
gl11+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory James Legowski) writes: > While we're talking about classic games, let's not forget some of the classic > of the arcade that never made it home. > > I'm thinking of games like Tempest and Sinistar. And of course classics from SINISTAR!!!!!!!! One of my ALL TIME favourites!!! That's a game I'd pay too much money for! Someone could make a fortune on a disk that had three or four of those games all together...
pashdown@javelin.es.com (Pete Ashdown) (01/08/91)
diogenes@bbs.sbs.com (Charles Bandes) writes: >gl11+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory James Legowski) writes: >> While we're talking about classic games, let's not forget some of the classic >> of the arcade that never made it home. >> >> I'm thinking of games like Tempest and Sinistar. And of course classics from >SINISTAR!!!!!!!! One of my ALL TIME favourites!!! That's a game I'd pay >too much money for! Someone could make a fortune on a disk that had three >or four of those games all together... Tell that to RJ Mical, author of Intuition. He wrote the arcade version. On top of that, Commodore's first artist Jack Haegar did the artwork for Sinistar. There's a game called Quarx or Quark or something to that effect, which is similar, but not near as satisfying as the original. I plan to invest in a standup soon. -- "No, no, no! It is an empirical law of physics that the heat flux at any point is proportional to the temperature gradient at that point." - Claudia Schiffer, over breakfast. Pete Ashdown pashdown@javelin.sim.es.com ...uunet!javelin.sim.es.com!pashdown