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Article #4761Re: My Pitfall II Review
From: jma... James K. Mayes
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 00:00
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 00:00
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men...@indirect.com (Kevin Dorff) wrote: Mine wouldn't work at first. I have a SB16 and had disabled the game port in order to use a standard 2-stick port on another multi-IO. When Win95 installed, it assumed that my port on the SB16 was the one of choice. To get it working, I went to Device Manager and looked under Sound, Game Adapter and removed the Gameport device. Then, I added a new one using the MICROSOFT/GAMEPORT generice driver. All works well now! Good luck, jimmy >How do I get the stick to work? (joystick) >Kevin >Thomas Boyingon (tmb...@rs5.tcs.tulane.edu) wrote: >: Hi, >: Well I got Pitfall II along with my copy of Win95 (it was $35 when >: you bought win95). Overall, the game is very good. If you spent >: hours playing Pitfall on the Atari then I think you will like this >: game. You can play it in a window or in full screen mode. Windowed >: its slower (but this is almost better in some places). The graphics >: are good and the music/sound effects are very nice. >: There are only two things I don't like so far: 1) If you want to >: play full screen you have to manually set that using the file menu >: everytime you start up the game. 2) I don't know how long it will >: last. By this I mean I don't know how long it will be until I >: finish the game. Last night I did 3 levels (out of 15 or so) in >: a hour or so. Once I finish the game I don't know if I will >: want to keep playing it over and over again (like I would on >: the Atari). >: I think the game is worth the bucks but it might be a bit short. >: Matt
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