Is Awaken dead?

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From Arseniy Astapenko To All 11 September 1999

Hello All! Having visited today the author of the script for the subject - Arny, I inform you that which protests against posing a question like the subject and generally like “if Mythos doesn’t finish it, I’ll kill him :))” In addition, Mythos himself seems ready to reconsider the decision under public pressure ;) As for my own impressions of what I saw. So that's it. Firstly, the main menu interface has been completely redesigned. In short, I haven’t seen this on the Spectrum yet - natural Windows ;) Main menu is fully customizable in real time, the sizes of all windows change as desired, stretch across the entire screen, can be scaled the image in them, the text is automatically reformatted when changing the size, well, there are buttons pressed, left-click help, context menus, save configurations, etc... Naturally, all windows are independently activated - that is overlap each other, are activated - generally take it out ;) Let's say in Academy it's just a preliminary setup dashboard, and there is much more room for imagination. You can play with one menu for a long time ;) Secondly, ships and stations. Well, Elite, that’s how it’s already perceived like a children's craft :) Naturally more than 30 different painted ships (including police, UFOs, pirates, etc), about 20 types of docking stations... In the demo version it was accordingly 5 and 1 ;) Thirdly. The galactic map has been redone. Names of planetsbecame more meaningful :) Added calculation bells and whistles motion trajectories, type of planetary system, etc Then. You can already fly over the planets. Some kind of imho applied Chunk technology like 2x2, well, everything turns quickly ;) This part is a little reminiscent of Tau Ceti, but cooler, clouds all sorts of things float, saucers fly ;) Well, in general, there is something, to put it mildly. Elite authors will see THIS I'll probably turn over in my grave ;P I was with you Ars^FTL

From Alex Shalin To Arseniy Astapenko 20 September 1999

Hi Arseniy! AP>> In general, I would not compare Awaken with Elite. Because it's like this AP>> a completely different game. Maybe it's not too late to ask the author to name the game Awoken? I read somewhere that they know that Awaken is grammatically incorrect, but is it worth it? be proud? How would you feel about a game called "Kalobok: Teneyzher - mutant - giroy?" ;)) -=> Bye, Alex Shalin aka Bishop <=- [ZX]