Re: LOC Dissappointment! (Was: Recommend any single player board games?)

["William Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"Payton Byrd" <plbyrd@bellsouth.no.spam.net> wrote in message news:cypKh.16683$Wc.5529@bignews3.bellsouth.net...

: Oh man, I got this, put it on disk and played it.
: Very disappointing. :(  I thought it would be
: faster than the C= version, but believe it or not,
: the C= with a Mach 5 cart is MUCH FASTER with the
: disk access... by a lot.  They must have used some
: really screwy disk routines for the Apple II port.
: Also, what's up with constantly loading data during
: the game?  The C= 64 has the same amount of RAM and
: never goes to the disk during the game.  Oh, and the
: A2 version's map editor doesn't check complexity of
: the map before starting the game, so you have to make
: it all the way into starting a game for the computer
: to decide the map is too complex.  Is the A2 version's
: AI crippled?  I've never seen the C= version complain
: about a map being too complex.  I'm bummed, this is a
: game where the A2 could have (should have) trounced the
: C64 because the graphics aren't demanding at all, it
: should have been about raw I/O performance since the
: CPU speed is the same, but the A2 community got hosed
: by EA on this one. :(

Well, I just played, sort of, if you can call what I did
playing, on AppleWIN and saw no disk accessing whatsoever.

William Garber
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