🚀 go-pugleaf

I just bought WCIII for the Mac and I must say that I am not impressed buy the 
graphics.  First it only has 256 color graphics which makes the video scenes 
look much worse then they would with 16 bit.  Why is the background when 
flying a blue shade and not black, it makes everyhting look muddy.  I think it 
looks ugly, X-Wing is much crisper and nicer to look at (at least on the Mac 
in hi res) and is 100 times more fluid.  I can't imagine that the texture 
mapping makes WCIII that much slower vs X-Wing, cause there is usually only 1 
fighter on the screen at a time anyway.  Besides, where is the support for 
QuickDraw 3D, I didn't buy a Mac for nothing?  Even in High Res mode, which 
should be 1:1 pixel mapping, the stars/nebulea and such are not in high res, 
and to top it off the game is jerky on an 80Mhz PPC.  On an 030 I can 
understand that, but a PPC?  All the other flight sims I have are smooth as 
glass!  The sound is not very good either, but this one area that X-Wing 
doesn't have an edge up on WCIII.  I just got the game and only played it for 
about 15 minutes at it's highest graphics settings, but I would expect more 
from a 4 CD game.  It looks like they didn't put much effort into porting it 
to the Mac as far as improving the graphics and sound, the port of X-Wing has 
much improved graphics over the PC version, I would expect the same here.  The 
only saving grace is that the animation is smooth (although low res and in 
crappy 256 color) in the video scenes and the Costuming/Makeup is good.

BTW, I have the demo for X-Wing that I uploaded to AMUG/incoming and 
a.b.mac.games.  If anyone wants me to repost it, let me know, but all the 
parts did get there ok, at least on my server.

later-
Noel
nho...@ucla.edu
http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~noel