Wing Commander Demo
Jim Hribnak
I saw the wing commander demo.. man the game is going to SUCK big time,
graphic look pathetic!!!! I dont know why these companies do this.. I hate to
say it but the IBM version looks 10 times more better than the amiga version is
going to be! If this continues, I just MAY (gulp) have to buy an IBM the
games seem to be getting BETTER than the Amiga versions! and sometimes IBM
games are out LONG before the amiga versions and sometimes the amiga versions
are never released!!!!
I sure hope the game quality begins to get better!!!! This is getting really
pathetic!
James Dusek
>I saw the wing commander demo.. man the game is going to SUCK big time,
Where is it?
James
Paul A Daniels
> Where is it?
>James
Yes please post the location,
Paul.
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Jim Hribnak
file.. But are you sure you wanna see it? IT IS PATHETIC! If you want it..
send me netmail. and I will gladly send it to ya!
Tim Devlin
Id like to see it anyway, if only to cry..I have the game on my Bridgeboard,
and would have enjoyed running it on my A3000...so please send me the demo
so I can bitch about it for myself ;)
Thanks
Tim
Jim Hribnak
To all who wanted the WING COMMANDER DEMO.. I have to get it from a freind
again. I seem to have misplaced the disk! I will keep your addresses and send
it as soon as I get it!
Colas Nahaboo
better yet, just upload it on an anonymous ftp site (wuarchive, physik,...)
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Heidi Quijano
>graphic look pathetic!!!! I dont know why these companies do this.. I hate to
>say it but the IBM version looks 10 times more better than the amiga version is
>going to be! If this continues, I just MAY (gulp) have to buy an IBM the
>games seem to be getting BETTER than the Amiga versions! and sometimes IBM
>games are out LONG before the amiga versions and sometimes the amiga versions
>are never released!!!!
I got a chance to see is also and HOLY DITHERING!!! Most of the time when you
see an IBM conversion, it's dithered in that ugly "MS-dithering" kinda way
but this is overkill! I don't even know why Origin is bothering with this
crap. Everything in the game was out of sync. The animation jerked back and
forth.
I'm just thinking that if I went through and bought an IBM, I'd have some
great stuff like Falcon v3.0, Wing Commander I/II, Ultima VII, and Star Trek
25th Anniversery with even more great ones to come like Srike Commander, etc.
The thought is tempting...
Just one question... obviously, Origin knew that this game is junk. Why'd
they even bother releasing a demo then? It would just make potential customers
into unpotential customers. If this was reallly a capitalist ploy, they'd
scratch the demo and just release the thing. Hell, I would've gone out and
bought it under those circumstances. Now, I'm just gonna wait until somebody
posts here about the official release and probably still won't buy it in the
end.
SHUK C YIP
>
>Just one question... obviously, Origin knew that this game is junk. Why'd
>they even bother releasing a demo then? It would just make potential customers
>into unpotential customers. If this was reallly a capitalist ploy, they'd
>scratch the demo and just release the thing. Hell, I would've gone out and
>bought it under those circumstances. Now, I'm just gonna wait until somebody
>posts here about the official release and probably still won't buy it in the
>end.
>
Because they want to demo how standard Amiga sucks on today's game
market. There are so many IBM gamers yell why it uses Amiga to produce
VGA graphics in WCI. Therefore, they make a GOD DAMN version to show IBM
is better than Amiga.
Heidi Quijano
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>Because they want to demo how standard Amiga sucks on today's game
>market. There are so many IBM gamers yell why it uses Amiga to produce
>VGA graphics in WCI. Therefore, they make a GOD DAMN version to show IBM
>is better than Amiga.
I don't quite understand what you're trying to say. One thing's for sure,
the Amiga doesn't support graphics standards such as VGA. Also, I seriously
doubt the Origin put out a shitty demo in an effort to put down the Amiga.
They'd ignore the Amiga before spending time and money on putting out a
demo to downgrade it.
Thomas Clancy
Did you ever stop to consider that maybe it was released 'prematurely' or
perhaps "as is" as a demo so that they could perchance stop
development on it when everyone goes "Awww that sucks" perhaps they
are looking to dump it and is using the entire community to help
them along, perhaps the communists are behind it, perhaps it's
really a plot to get Saddam. Sheesh... Why speculate? $hit still
smells like $hit and is.
Norman St. John Polevaulter
hqui...@csws13.ic.sunysb.edu (Heidi Quijano) says:
>I got a chance to see is also and HOLY DITHERING!!! Most of the time when you
>see an IBM conversion, it's dithered in that ugly "MS-dithering" kinda way
>but this is overkill! I don't even know why Origin is bothering with this
>crap. Everything in the game was out of sync. The animation jerked back and
>forth.
I saw the preview of WC in one of the Euro-mags. The in-flight graphics did
look like... well... I suppose "crap" is the most inoffensive way of putting
it, but the article made great pains to emphasize that the graphics will be
improved markedly. Whether or not this is true remains to be seen. (I won't
buy in anyway, since I've already played and completed WC on an IBM... I
wonder if the Origin-droids have taken this into account? WC has been out
so long that a significant fraction of Amigans who might have bought it
have ALREADY played it elsewhere!) So, perhaps releasing a demo with the
ugly graphics was just carelessness. Incidentally I agree with you about
dithering... look, would it *kill* them to use solid colors once or twice??
Anyway, I'm not going to get my hopes up for Wing Commander. MANTIS from
Microprose and ELITE II sound like real competition for Wing Commander, and
better on Amiga. 'Course I thought the same about Epic and look what
happened...
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Jim Hribnak
nearly wanted to go and hurl someplace! :) I would be embarressed to show
ANYONE who didnt have an Amiga!
Clayton Miner
are putting it down? It sounds good to me.
Skeksis
C Blake Dollens
If it's as bad as everyone says, I wouldn't want to show it to anyone who
_does_ have an Amiga! Can someone please upload this infamous demo to
wuarchive.wustl.edu? I'd like to see it for myself, as would a lot of
other people on the net, I'm sure. Thanks in advance.
Blake
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Eric Moon
>If it's as bad as everyone says, I wouldn't want to show it to anyone who
>_does_ have an Amiga! Can someone please upload this infamous demo to
>wuarchive.wustl.edu? I'd like to see it for myself, as would a lot of
>other people on the net, I'm sure. Thanks in advance.
wingcommanderdemo.lha is now on wuarchive.wustl.edu in systems/amiga/incoming/
games
Jim Hribnak
were going to send it to an FTP site... I sure hope you guys dont commit
suicide over this demo :) I personally like the PC version better! and if
the message I read earlier on the NET, about Origin not producing any more
Amiga software, they thats why it looks so bad!
Just my opinion!