Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!news.funet.fi!ngw!news.funet.fi!not-for-mail From: Tak-keung Chung Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: CD-ROM Review; Night Owl 11 Date: 25 Apr 1994 19:57:40 +0300 Organization: FUNET-NGW Lines: 31 Sender: daemon@news.funet.fi Distribution: alt Message-ID: <2dbbf174.takk@takk.air.org> Reply-To: Tak-keung Chung NNTP-Posting-Host: news.funet.fi Return-Path: <@UCCVMA.UCOP.EDU:airhk!takk.air.org!tkchung@HK.NET> Comments: To: info@config.com Comments: cc: cdrom-l@uccvma.ucop.edu To: CDROM-L Redistribution On Fri, 22 Apr 1994 22:45:42 GMT, "config.sys, Inc. Information Account" wrote: > > If this is Night Owl's usual style, I can hardly wait for Edition 12 > which, I hear, is due out almost any day now. I may never finish > playing. > > From DOS you can choose either straight-up keyboard interface or a > nice GUI, mouse-friendly environment. From Windows (after installing) > it works just like any other Windows interface, point and click. The > menus are self-explanatory and everything works. > > My final opinion? It's nice, it's dangerous, (You can get lost in > there playing!) and it's like having your own private applications > programmer. (But it doesn't take as long.) > I agree that you pick up a nice shareware disc. Apart from the easy graphical interface (compare this with your chestnut disc), they take some care to pick their files to be included. They have little duplication with previous versions unlike some other discs which got much dupl. or they look very similar and you get bored because of seeing the same stuff o'er&o'er again. But the graphical interface sometimes don't work on my cd drive for mysterious reasons; it hangs. Seems some people got the same problem. A close rival of Night Owl may be Pier series (which was introduced to me by a dealer). The newest being Pier 4, released just several weeks ago. You may have a look if you have access to it. -- Tak-keung Chung tkchung@takk.air.org Address: Hong Kong