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From: dynasoft!john@stag.UUCP (John Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Arcade games on the ST
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Date: 8 May 88 19:03:42 GMT
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In article <857@nunki.usc.edu> rjung@castor.usc.edu (Robert Jung) writes:
 >
 >  Everybody who's bought a Firebird product is a satisfied sustomer. They and
 >FTL are among the best Atari ST developers around. Long may they live!

  While I agree in general, I don't think bringing up FTL in a
discussion about the problems involved in color-ONLY programs is
a good idea.  While Dungeon-Master is one of the best games on
the ST, it's so color-only that even OmniRes can't get it to run
on a monochrome monitor.

 >  You could also check out that new program _Monoware_, which is
 >supposed to make your monochrome monitor emulate a color monitor
 >perfectly, and vice versa. I haven't used it myself, but
 >everything I've heard says that it delivers.

  You've got it backwards...  Monoware runs monochrome programs
on a color system, not the other way around.  There is, to my
knowledge, no existing public-domain or shareware program to run
color programs on a monochrome monitor.  (And no commercial
versions that are capable of running Dungeon-Master.)

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John Stanley (dynasoft!john@stag.UUCP)
Software Consultant / Dynasoft Systems