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From: jmpiazza@sunybcs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Flight Simulator II
Message-ID: <1838@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 4-Jan-87 00:29:42 EST
Article-I.D.: sunybcs.1838
Posted: Sun Jan  4 00:29:42 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Jan-87 06:37:43 EST
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Reply-To: jmpiazza@gort.UUCP (Joseph M. Piazza)
Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
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In article <2280@well.UUCP> tenney@well.UUCP (Glenn S. Tenney) writes:
> ... but the [menu]
> interface is foreign to an Amiga owner.  It seems the Amiga version
> is a port from the Atari ST version and they ported the GEM interface.

	I saw the pre-release version and some menus were lifted from the
Mac version -- they still had the "command key" in the menus using the Mac's
same clover design!

> ... I tried to shoot an ILS ...
> [SubLogic rep says] "Oh, none of the instrument approaches in the
> Bay Area works" ...

	I'd be happy to find out how to do it.  The manual sufficiently
explains how to use VOR; why not ILS?  I did notice that the O in the OMI
indicater bleeps at me on my way to the Oakland Bay bridge.

> "So many people wanted it, that they were willing to take it with bugs."

	I plea guilty.

>-- short flame --
>   I think that releasing a program with such an obvious bug (since it
>   starts up by default in the Bay Area) is an awful thing to do.
>   Although it IS a nice simulation (and well worth buying, so far), I
>   suggest you consider waiting a month or so until the next release
>   gets out.

Unfortunately, they can get away with their decision 'cause I think
that most buyers would be like me and not know what we're missing.

>   ... I also feel
>   that emulating the GEM interface was the WRONG choice.

	That's an understatement -- very stupid choice on their part, in
my opinion.  I can't imagine that using Intuition menus was any more
difficult than writing their own utilities from near scratch.  On
second thought, maybe that was the problem:  "Hell, I wrote these here
neat menu routines so I'm usin' 'em!"

Flip side,

	joe piazza

--- Cogito ergo equus sum.

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