CompuServe Thread

I don't know if I am bringing you fresh news or I am repeating something that might have scrolled off. At any rate, it doesn't hurt me to make this announcement even if it were made before: Hear this! Two new software packages by Activision are out. They are Mindshadow and Hacker by Activision. I found them at the software supermarket in WestLA yesterday, and they told me that they had just received them. Even though I am not so much of an Activision fan, I could resist but buy Mindshadow. (Note: I was told that I was their first Amiga software buyer!!!) Here are my first impressions: The graphics are better than the adventures on the 8-bitters, though they aren't what you would expect on the Amiga. I attribute that to Activision trying to rush the product on the market and be the first Amiga software publisher. More seriously, I encountered a bug, and a design flaw: The bug occurs sometimes when you try to save your position in the game. The system locks-up then when you reboot you find that your $45 copy is down to $3 in value (i.e. the disk doesn't boot, it has been trashed.) Fortunatly there are two ways around this: One, there is a QUICKSAVE command (different from the bugged SAVE) that works fine. Two, although the disk SOUNDS protected while loading, I was able to make a back-up using DISKCOPY in CLI, which saved my day when I encountered the aforementioned bug! Come the design flaw problem: The game boots up not well centered on the screen, which is fine if you have a 1080 monitor, because all you do is adjust the HOR POS knob. However, if you have some other type of monitor (eg. a 1070 like me) where these controls are only accessible with a screwdriver at the back of the machine, then this IS a problem, especially because if you run preferences and try to save the screen position to the game, and reboot, you get ERROR VALIDATING DISK errors and other errors, too. The game itself though seems nice, and nothing beats being the first! (I hope my message was informative to some of you.) <Fadi>