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From: donw@zehntel.UUCP (Don White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Garrison/Gauntlet
Message-ID: <557@zehntel.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 87 22:26:09 GMT
References: <550@zehntel.UUCP> <502@io.UUCP>
Organization: Zehntel, Inc., Walnut Creek, CA
Lines: 27
Keywords: Uhhh, just how buggy is it?
Summary: Doesn't work on A500's !!

In article <502@io.UUCP>, carlos@io.UUCP (Carlos Smith) writes:
> >     The sound and music are excellent. (stereo, possibly digitized) The
...
>  ...
> >-- Pray for Sanity,  but don't get crazy about it.       Don White, now. --
> 
> And it WORKS!??! A few months ago myself and 2 friends all bought copies of
> Garrison, but all ended up having to return them. One copy never booted up
> (on an A500), while the other two would always hang while going to a new
> level. None of us were ever able to finish a game without it hanging. 
> 
> I liked the game, and hated having to return it. So, now I am wondering if
> this is a new release, or what? Ours were definitely European versions, 
> written for PAL displays because everything went off the edges of the screen
...
> 			Carlos Smith

     Yes, it works. It works on my A1000. I took it to a local computer store
last night and tried it on an A500.  It never booted up. It is still the PAL
european display. But it does work for me. It is a little buggy, sometimes 
some of the graphics change colors or patterns, but I assumed this was due 
to the extra screen data that has to dissappear. You can tell that Garrisson 
is trying to write pixels ...  where no pixels have gone before. (above and
below the normal screen area. At first I thought it was vertical overscan,
then I read the English/German translations on the box (fun), and knew in a 
flash that it was PAL)
The bugginess does not occur often, so I can live with it.