Conference hydra::amiga_v1

    
<I'm wondering if maybe it IS available for Amiga, or will be soon...?  Anyone 
know?

Thanks,
Steve >
    
    
    Yea, I fell in love with it too. I called Access and was told to expect
    the AMIGA version in early 1992. The movement of the golfer is soooo
    natural it's amazing. Game play is very good also.
    
    
    Roger
    

    How does it compare to PGA Golf ? PGA must be the best golf game
    currently on the Amiga. I know someone who was really impressed by an
    arcade golf game he saw; it had overhead views of the shot etc... sort
    of took the idea in PGA of showing a different camera angle to an
    extreme.
    
    The "camera angle" idea seems to be gaining popularity these days, what
    with Indianapolis 500, the racing game, having all kinds of different
    angles.
    
    
    
    				Jamie.

	In the last issue of ACE is a short preview about a new
	golfgame from MicroProse. It's in a very early stage of
	development but one of the outstanding effects is that
	after offswing the view changes to a virtual camera following
	the ball, thus enabling you to enjoy the golf course in every
	detail.

	Hope this will be available on Amy as well, and hopefully sooner
	than later.

	But we all know MicroProse... 

	Helmut

    Re. -2
    
    	I've played PGA golf and still like LINKS better. PGA golf has one
    feaure that I do like which is after the ball is hit, at the half way
    point of its tragectory, the view changes to the landing zone. The
    thing I hate about PGA golf is how they show the lie of the ball on the
    green. The "green" screen keeps poping up even if you hit your shot
    short. I think LINKS will be THE GOLF GAME when its available (IMHO).
    
    
    Roger
    

    I know it's been awhile since anyone has replied to this note, but 
    I'm hopeful that there's still a few "die-hard" golf fans out there
    who are ready to offer their opinion to me! 
                I bought PGA Golf, but it was a toss up between PGA and
    Jack Nicklaus Unlimited Golf and Course Design. I haven't heard any
    reviews about Jack Nicklaus' game in this note and was wondering if
    anyone had it and can give me some insight?
    
    Mike
    
    
    I,too,am in awe of "Links"!! I read a review about the game in
    "Computer Gaming Monthly" magazine and I'm also waiting for it
    to hit the software shops in Amiga version......

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>                               -< Jack Nicklaus? >-
> 
>     I know it's been awhile since anyone has replied to this note, but 
>     I'm hopeful that there's still a few "die-hard" golf fans out there
>     who are ready to offer their opinion to me! 
>                 I bought PGA Golf, but it was a toss up between PGA and
>     Jack Nicklaus Unlimited Golf and Course Design. I haven't heard any
>     reviews about Jack Nicklaus' game in this note and was wondering if
>     anyone had it and can give me some insight?
>     
>     Mike
>     
>     
>     I,too,am in awe of "Links"!! I read a review about the game in
>     "Computer Gaming Monthly" magazine and I'm also waiting for it
>     to hit the software shops in Amiga version......
> 

If your interested (or anyone else) I have a brand new copy of
Jack Nicklaus gold and course design I'l sell cheap (like make me an offer).

I've never played it (was given to me by the author!) but I don't think it
runs on 68030 (and 020) based machines...

john

    I was talking to a guy that said he saw a beta release of a new golf
    game for CDTV. He said the courses were actually digitized pictures,
    of the real course. he said it was the next best thing to being there.
    							bill

I know, it's only vaguely related, but I have a distributable miniature
golf game _written in AREXX_. It runs on anything with AREXX, but wants a
32 bit processor for reasonable performance. I'll upload it to tape: if
anyone wants it...

	<mike

>a distributable miniature golf game _written in AREXX_.

!!! I'm amazed! Just out of curiosity, do the docs for 2.0,
    (which includes AREXX) come even close to explaining that you
    can write something like this?  Everything I have read or heard
    implied that it was mostly an interprocess/interapplication 
    communications language/tool. 

    Also, isn't there a pd or shareware AREXX compiler? That might 
    speed it up some for mere mortals seeking "reasonable 
    performance" ;-)

    Since this is a tangent any followups should go to the AREXX topic,
    wherever that is.
    Dave
    

>                I bought PGA Golf, but it was a toss up between PGA and
>    Jack Nicklaus Unlimited Golf and Course Design. I haven't heard any
>    reviews about Jack Nicklaus' game in this note and was wondering if
>    anyone had it and can give me some insight?

I have both Jack Nicklaus Unlimited Golf and Course Design as well as 
PGA. I prefer playing PGA because it seems a little more realistic. My 
scores on PGA are much closer to what I actually shoot in golf. However, 
there are some features of Jack Nicklaus that are great! The course 
designer is awesome. You can build a course from ground up and affect just 
about every detail of the course. The graphics aren't as good as PGA, 
but in Jack Nicklaus, you have the option of viewing the course from any 
place on the course (they call it "walking the fairway"). Jack Nicklaus 
also gives you replay and reverse-angle replay.

My biggest complaint about Jack Nicklaus is the time it takes to paint 
the screen and the way it does it. It paints it from left to right in 
spurts of about an inch at a time. For some reason this spoils the 3d 
effect for me. The screen paints *did* speed up considerably when I 
installed an ADSpeed in my 2000 though.

I think they are both good games, but I don't think the ultimate golf 
game has come out yet. Maybe Links will be it. All of the golf games 
seem to be ports from the IBM world. I would like to see one that takes 
advantage of the Amiga's great graphics and sound capabilities.


Chris

    I've seen PGA on the Ami and the PC. I was amazed that the Amiga
    version seems to use the PC graphics!! It would be a *better* game if
    they made some Amiga graphics.
    
    
    Greg