Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!sunybcs!jmpiazza 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 References: <2280@well.UUCP> Reply-To: jmpiazza@gort.UUCP (Joseph M. Piazza) Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 53 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. CS Dept. SUNY at Buffalo 14260 (716) 636-3191, 3180 UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!jmpiazza CS: jmpiazza@buffalo-cs BI: jmpiazza@sunybcs GE: jmpiazza