uzun@pnet01.cts.com (Roger Uzun) (10/03/90)
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Just got DragonStrike. A new Dragon Flight Simulator (combat) by
SSI. It is a great game and a great program. The folks at SSI did
a fantastic job on this one. Lots of quests and runs fine on my
A3000 and is HD installable.
One fine product, done right and a lot of fun (more than I can
say for most psygnosis games! They do not like to boot on the
3000 for the most part, and hard disk? What is that!)
I heartily recommend this program to all!
-Roger
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INET: uzun@pnet01.cts.comuzun@pnet01.cts.com (Roger Uzun) (10/04/90)
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Unfortunately, DragonStrike is NOT 2.0 compatible. It plays for a while
but crashes when you breath fire/chlorine gas/whatever.
Still a fun game...and is A3000 compatible as long as you boot 1.3
-Roger
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INET: uzun@pnet01.cts.comxanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) (10/25/90)
In article <3398@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes: > I just bought DragonStrike. For those that don't know, DS is a Dragon > combat/flight simutator. Instead of flying a jet, you fly a dragon. > and fight other dragons. Sounds fun! > My impression of the game so far (I only played it a few times so far) > is good. It's a bit slow, but the concept is really neat. One problem > I found is that it is supposed to have background music (toggled on > and off by control M) but it doesn't seem to work. But it maybe > because I only have 512k. This is a fairly standard way to trim back a game when memory is scarce; I forget where, but I've seen this in a couple of other games; sampled sound takes up mongo space. +2 points for graceful degradation to keep it playable on small systems. > You can select the amount of landscape detail to be displayed (the > more detail the slower the game). +2 more points for sensible compensation for slower processors while taking advantage of faster ones to make the game dressier. > The BEST thing about DragonStrike is that it works on all Amiga's and > it is hard drive installable. NO DISK BASED PROTECTION!! Just look up > a word in the manual protection. Although it is a pain, it's better > than disk based protection. Well, that puts it on my must buy list! Is it by any rare possibility multitaskable? It's already made my "Support Good Game Developers" list. >Ratings (from 1 to 10. 10=perfection) > >Playability: 8 >Speed: 4 (on an Amiga 1000. The manual says its faster on faster amigas) >Protection scheme: 6 Thanks for the review! This is the kind of software we all need to buy, so people will sell more of it. I wonder if I can get it to run out of RAD:? /// It's Amiga /// for me: why Kent, the man from xanth. \\\/// settle for <xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us> \XX/ anything less? -- Convener, comp.sys.amiga grand reorganization.