Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: PT109 Message-ID: <3948@fluke.COM> Date: 2 Jun 88 23:02:51 GMT References: <1228@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> Sender: news@tc.fluke.COM Reply-To: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 23 Posted: Thu Jun 2 19:02:51 1988 I've played with the release version in Novice mode for a while, and I have two major complaints: 1) This little bugger is SLOW on loading on a Mac+. What's interesting is that it's not I/O taking the time: I set my ramdisk cache to 1 Meg, started the program up, quit it and restarted PT-109. Only one access to the hard disk, but it took just as long to start the game up as it had without the ram cache on. I'd be curious how it works on a Mac II or something with an accelerator card. 2) Very easy to win at level 1. I mean, a PT boat killing 7 destroyers? Wow, I should head for Japan and just get the whole country to surrender! I'm just starting to play at level 3, and it seems a bit better -- we'll see... "Bring the little ones unto me, and I will get a good price for them." --- Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer INTERNET: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM Manual UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, microsoft}!fluke!moriarty CREDO: You gotta be Cruel to be Kind... <*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>