#20,000 LEAGUES
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Don't have information on 20,000 Leagues. Jim did lose an INCREDABLE
amount of work to the virus, I hope the creators of the virus realize the
damage they caused.
Aegis has just released Ports of Call, a maritime simulator. Really
excellent product. Here is some feed back from users….
BIX:Amiga.user/main #2484 from cmcmanis
TITLE: Darn Aegis
I am sure it is a conspiracy to get me to fall over dead. Last night after
finishing some programming work I plopped in Ports of Call to see what it was
like. I had to exit the game to go to work this morning. Needless to say, it
sort of captured my attention.
–Chuck
Other quotes include…
"… as games go it is destined to be a classic."
So check it out.
I agree with Chuck, Ports of Call is hot! What I like MOST about it is
that it's unprotected, I can run it from my HD, and it MULTITASKS —
YEA!!!!!
After playing it for 10-12 hours, I just wonder tho, is it REALLY possible
to make a profit?
Steve, I still have a bad taste in my mouth from Aegis Arazok's Tomb (in my
opinion one of the worst games of all time). Could you describe Pots of Call a
little? Thanks.
Marc,
Ports of Call is a 1-4 player game that can take anywhere from an hour
to many, many hours to play. The overall objective of the game is to make
money and gain prestige by running a shipping business. You start the game,
with 5 million in the bank (In the expert level at least, don't know if it's
any different in the beginner or genius levels) that you can use to buy your
first ship. You pick a home port and start accepting contracts to deliver
products like Machinery, Textiles, Agricultural products, etc, to different
parts of the world, for a fee. By strategically picking your contracts, you
can create shortages or overages in specific areas and then capitalize on the
rewards. The more ports you service, however, the more prestige you get.
Prestige is also dependant on the quality and quantity of your sailing vessels,
and how you treat other situations in the game. The game has a good mixture of
arcade action and strategic thinking. I can recommend the game quite highly,
it's very well done.
-John
Marc,
Looks like our opinions of Arazok's Tomb are the same. The game stunk!
(well, I probably shouldn't say that — I only played it once, for about 5
minutes at my dealer. I played it long enough for it to GURU the 500).
Anyway, Ports of Call is a very good thinking strategy game. It's planning
and strategy is along the lines of Balance of Power but not as complex.
Scenerio: You are a person with $5 mil to spend. You want to start a tramp
shipping company. You buy one (or more) ships that you can afford, and start
travelling the world shipping freight. The goal is to be profitable and grow (a
goal I've yet to achieve). The graphics are excellent — by LaBarre and Sachs.
Digitized sound is very good. The disk is not protected but does have a
keyword protection of sorts. Instead of the 'normal' keyword protection, Aegis
shows that they do have a sense of humor. You get questions like "What is the
color of the chain on front of the box", "What color was George Washington's
white horse", "What word is directly underneath Aegis on the cover of the
manual", etc. Not only do I not get bored looking up words, it's ALMOST fun in
itself, and, cuz a several of the questions I've gotten so far deal with colors
of objects on the box or the manual, it will (should) limit piracy to a degree
(there aren't TOO many color copiers around).
I asked Sachs about this, and he only lost boot block code to the virus. He was
patching it in directly, by hand, and never had a text version of the code. He
wrote a special little loader that brought up the opening screen and music of a
game in about two seconds after putting the disk in the drive of a 500. Sure,
you can't plan ahead for a virus that only eats boot blocks, but you can always
plan ahead for catastrophic failure, and he didn't. So as the real hackers
say, "he deserved to lose."