| ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ GAUNTLET (c) MICRO POWER ★ |
Popular Computing Weekly |
MEDIOCRE There was a time when Amstrad owners were justifiably worried about software support for their new machine, but with programs of the quality of Masterfile and Sorcery turning up I would say that time is now officially over. Of course, together with the supremely excellent comes. . . the supremely average, and Gauntlet (together with Killer Gorilla on Side B) falls very solidly into the latter category.
Both have been previously released by Micropower for Acorn micros, and because the CPC 464 uses the same graphics chip (the 6845) they have 'reproduced the outstanding graphics almost exactly'. Outstanding? Two years ago on an inferior machine maybe. Today, no. What you get for your £9.95 are two arcade clones - Donkey Kong and Defender- that aren't actively bad (although the true graphic capabilities of the machine aren't touched), but just plain mediocre. Arcade fanatics can get better elsewhere. Alligata's Defend or Die for instance -so the only market for this package is the 'serious'programmer that wants some occasional light relief at a cheap(ish) price. Not recommended for seasoned campaigners though. PopularComputingWeekly850411 |
|  |
|
Page créée en 110 millisecondes et consultée 3153 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. |
