IO92257@MAINE.BITNET (11/08/90)
I just found a Software Botique in our local mall (I am in Bangor, Maine. Maine (the state) has TWO amiga dealers!) Pitiful...but then Maine only has 1 million population! I saw all this MS-D*S stuff and Nint*ndo garbage (but very nicely packaged garbage!) out in the front of the store, and on a whim I asked if they had any Amiga software. (on a whim, because every other place I have been has had old or zero amounts of Amiga software) Too my amazement, they did! In the back of the store, near the A*pple II stuff. It was only games, but they were NEW games...Beast II, Turrican, KGS, etc. and at the same price or a couple bucks above mail order! I was, to put it mildly, stunned! And the BEST thing was that they had F-18 Interceptor for 14 bucks! Knowing what a great game it is, I bought it, and have been shooting down cruise missiles. It is far less complicated than Falcon, but FAR slicker! Fast frame rates, nicely drawn objects, and big windscreens! It is a classic! By the way, RawCopy will deprotect it...so you only have to type 000 and not use the code wheel. I asked them about Test Drive III for the Amiga (It was on display for the I*M) and they said no date had been set for it's realease. Seeing that Amiga-Generated artwork on the front of the Wing Commander box with 'IBM screens shown' underneath REALLY PIS*ED ME OFF!!!!! GRRRRR.... (Aw, heck, Interceptor's probably much more playable! ...and it loads all into ram! :) -Brent Cook (io92257 at maine)