RE: monochrome games

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From: Michael Cohan, U of Mass/Amherst
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1986 00:51

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Eric Terrell <terrell@ohio-state.ARPA> writes:

> Someone on the net said that starglider ran on mono systems.  I tried to
> boot a dealer's copy, and got bomb characters.

I have Starglider, and it works perfectly in monochrome.  Your
dealer must have had a bad disk (or maybe an older version??)

> Flight Simulator is reported to say color or mono on the box, but allegedly
> only works on color systems.

The currently shipped version is color only.  However, a friend
of mine called Sublogic, and was told that a monochrome version
will ship in January.

> The krabat chess game and the puzzle game that I posted only work on mono
> systems.  Much of the European software is like this.

In Europe, >80% of systems sold are monochrome, precisely the
reverse of the U.S.

MCOHAN%UMASS.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA           MCOHAN@UMASS.BITNET
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