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#Kampfgruppe?

    17-May-87 21:58:59
Sb: #67943-#Kampfgruppe?
Fm: Brian Rock 70166,342
To: Thomas Holaday 70407,534
Thomas, I have Kampfgruppe. My dealer (Lakes Consumer Electronics in Akron) says he's had it intermittantly for 2 weeks. It seems pretty good, but I want to goof with it for awhile before I give it an unqualified recommendation. I also bought Computer Baseball and it didn't look too bad at first. But with continued play, its darker side came out. Back to Kampfgruppe, I have the C-64 versions of Mech Brigade and Battlegroup, but not Kampfgruppe, so I cannot directly compare. They have modified the user interface extensively, using mouse and text windows. Seems a bit clumsy to me, but I think it is more a case of getting used to it than actual clumsiness. I think that multipage windows may have a slight bug; it seems that sometimes the pages loop, i.e. on a two page list of possible targets, next page never stops functioning, looping around between the pages. Until you figure it out, it seems that you have an infinite number of enemies. Digitized sound, very, _very_ nice, at least at first. It may drive you crazy eventually. Different shell sizes sound with different pitches, nice touch. Very clean graphics, manual is the old one with Amiga inserts, but this causes no problem. One feature which non-manual readers need to be aware of is that it asks questions at boot as a copy protection feature; it is not copy protected. Hope that doesn't hurt sales; I'd hate to see SSI drop the Ami due to !@#$% pirates. I'd like to see other opinions of it. If I change my opinion of it, I will post a message in the future. … Brian