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Topic: See my Star Control 1 Review!!! (Read 4512 times)
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guesst
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A gross error has been corrected! I noticed on Abandonia.com that their Star Control 1 review was less than it could have been. (The review didn't like the Full Game at all, so it basically amounted to "Melee good, go play Star Control 2." So I mentioned it on the boards and when I talked to the moderator of the site to give them the Star Control 1 manual he asked if I wanted to do a better review. Do I?! So I did. You can read the whole thing here:
http://www.abandonia.com/games/en/143/StarControl1.htm
I don't know about you, but I'm pretty stoked about this.
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Arne
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Why are the screenshots scaled...badly?
...also, is the .adf 'PD' yet?
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Amiga Disk File.
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what a funny thing, I read this thing yesterday without reading your post in the forum.
In fact, your review made me download the game and when I played it, I was completely disappointed.
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Noo! I was talking about flowers!!!1
Yeah, there's an Amiga vesion of the game. I was wondering if it had been released as a free download under some sort of license, and if so, will it be available at that site. I'd rather play games using an emulator (winUAE) than tinkering around with DosBox and .exe files.
Edit: Cnat tyep! Also: Moby games has screenshots from many versions. (Abandonia is just concentrating on PC games?)
Edit: Found C64 version on www.c64.com (under S bottom of page '300') It seems very... crippled.
I think it's important with good screenshots. Maybe you could make your own with this DosBox thing you're using? I think that would benefit the review.
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SC1 was released for PC/DOS, Commodore Amiga, Sega Genesis, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and Sinclair Spectrum. The DOS and Amiga versions can be considered to be the "original" SC1 (the Amiga version has better sound than the PC version; same sound effects as SC2/UQM and the Amiga SC1 title music lives on as the Ur-Quan theme in SC2). The Genesis version is a decent port of the Amiga version except that it is very slow.
The 8-bit versions of SC1, on the other hand, look nothing like the SC1 most of us know, are missing many of the ships and are unplayably slow and badly balanced. As far as I can tell, TFB had nothing to do with these versions.
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Why is it that I'm hearing about Amiga emulation all over now-a-days? I may have to get into it. I hear there's alot of good, high quality games came out for the Amiga.
Then again, I don't have time for the hobbies I already have. Maybe this'll wait for a while.
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The emulator is free, but you'll need the kickstarts and those are not free for some reason. http://www.winuae.net/
There's a package sold with everything you need, it can be found here: http://www.amigaforever.com/
Back2roots have a lot of games, and they have permission from the copyright holders to put them up too. http://www.back2roots.org/ <- I'm getting a blank page here now though, and it's been like that for a while. I think there's other sites too but I can't remember them atm.
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