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Popular Computing Weekly |
The continuing saga of the Amstrad snooker games has begun to match Dynasty in its convolutions. The story briefly to date was the Artisoft's Snooker game had some very nice touches such as numbered balls for green screen owners. attractive detailing, etc, but was slow and less playable compared to the rival Steve Davis Snooker and also cost a pound more - no contest in most people's minds. As an attempt to get round this Amsoft have re-released Now Amstrad has released Alex Higgins' World Pool which stretches the relevance of the licence a bit far but is an enjoyable release. Unlike most versions of computer pool this actually has the full number of balls and plays to the correct rules - the attention to detail even stretches to the point where half the balls carry spots and half stripes and these are animated to move and roll the way the patterns would on a real ball. It is all very clever and probably takes up at least half of the processing time with the result that the game is, once again, slow. Still if pool is your game rather than snooker it is the most attractive version I have seen, certainly not unplayable, and there doesn't seem to be any immediate rivals for your cash. Tony Kendle, PCW
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Page créée en 129 millisecondes et consultée 2437 fois L'Amstrad CPC est une machine 8 bits à base d'un Z80 à 4MHz. Le premier de la gamme fut le CPC 464 en 1984, équipé d'un lecteur de cassettes intégré il se plaçait en concurrent du Commodore C64 beaucoup plus compliqué à utiliser et plus cher. Ce fut un réel succès et sorti cette même années le CPC 664 équipé d'un lecteur de disquettes trois pouces intégré. Sa vie fut de courte durée puisqu'en 1985 il fut remplacé par le CPC 6128 qui était plus compact, plus soigné et surtout qui avait 128Ko de RAM au lieu de 64Ko. |
