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From: "Ira Rainey" <ira@netcomuk.co.uk>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english
Subject: A game thats too hard
Date: 8 Sep 1997 12:05:12 GMT
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I have been told by more than one person that my latest game demo, a dog
tale is too hard.

I knew it was pretty difficult, but it's not impossible. However, it would
appear that those who have played it, have played the NTSC version, which
is really a bit of a hack.

As I wrote the game for PAL, all I did for NTSC was to change the video
mode at the start of the game, knowing full well that it would be quicker,
but not knowing how hard it would be to play.

So I've chucked in another hack. There now only exists one version, which
will auto-detect which video mode you are running in and if it's NTSC, then
it will give you a polite warning and offer you the chance to run the game
in glorious colour, but at a speed of which you'll never be able to finish
the game, or switch the video mode to PAL and run it in true Atari style
black and white, but at a more acceptable speed. The choice is yours.

You can't please all the people all the time, but I like it just fine.

Ira