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Magiccar There can be few people who have not heard of the excellent Infocom range of adventures, but until now it was only the lucky owners of American home computers, Atari and Commodore, that could get a chance to play them. Thankfully some of them at least are now available for the large memory Amstrad machines running under CP/M+ (and faster than on the Commodore drives I suspect). Incidentally I have been told that there is no technical reason why they could not have released it on CP/M 2.2 for every Amstrad - the people to complain to, loudly and long, are the importers, Softsel, and not Newstar who are only distributers. Hitchhikers itself is the latest Infocom release to reach the UK, and without a doubt the one with the greatest mass appeal. Most things you can say about it have already been said: it follows the atmosphere of the books with extraordinary success and the puzzles are solvable as long as you get the hang of the lunatic logic. The descriptions are long, verbose, evocative and above all genuinely funny - even Level 9, the masters of text compression, can't match over 110K of test data on disc (which explains the price tag). The responses are intelligent and the way it anticipates your inputs is almost magical. It's always hard for a game to live up to a reputation as great as this one, but I was enormously entertained - I advise you not to miss it. Tony Kendle, PCW |
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Page créée en 448 millisecondes et consultée 4434 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. |
