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In article <26OCT199...@zeus.tamu.edu>, bkh...@zeus.tamu.edu (BENJAMIN KYLE HENDERSON) writes:
> In article <38liir$8...@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, j-h...@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (James Hogan) writes...
>> 
>>U7 came out around late March/early April 1993, a week or two after 
>>Strike.  I think the 286/386 question was pretty much obsolete by then, 
>>anyway.  :)
>> 
> Not true, U7 came out long before Strike, almost a year before, spring 92.  
> You are probably thinking of U7.5, which came out a month after Strike hit 
> the stores, (but two months before the Strike speech pack of course)
> I remember it was a very very big deal in 92 that any game besides Links 386 
> would require a 386, although the most advanced games back then (Falcon 3.0)
> certainly ran better on one.  Xwing I think was the second to require
> a 386, and all the Up and Coming boards behind store counters around town
> listed (386+) after the title, sometimes with many exclaimation marks.
> The question certainly was not obsolete.

Just for a point of fact; I ran X-wing on my old '286. It ran OK but was
pretty slow. WC Academy was the first game I encountered that wouldn't
run on a '286. Funny thing though, the install worked fine. Guess they
didn't check at that stage. Running the game caused the system to hang
though.

> 
> Thinking back, I really miss U7 pt 1.  It was the best RPG/adventure I
> ever played, and nothing in the 2.5 years since then has come close.
> 
> K