wombat@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) (03/24/89)
I got mail asking me about system requirements for rogue on the GS from Evan Ron Aussenberg, but my reply to him bounced, so I thought I'd post it here for public consumption: To: Evan Ron Aussenberg <ames!unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu!erast1> Subject: Re: Rogue Clone > > > Could you mention the GS system requirements for me? Thanks, Well, I'm not really aware of any minimal requirements, but then, it's in a beta state right now: I haven't tried it on many configurations. I've been told it runs on a 768K system. As for a smaller machine, you'd have to be running something pre-system 4.0 (GS/OS) which I assume works, but I can't say for sure. As far as disk drives go, if you can fit it on a disk with a system, I think you can run it off of a single floppy. It supports disk swapping only as much as the tools do. If it needs to write a save file & can't, it won't. If it needs to write a high-score file & can't, it'll try a few times (I think) telling you it can't lock the scores file. Sorry to sound wishy-washy about what's necessary, but I pretty much did a straight port (then hacked the I/O routines to pieces for speed) & added a few enhancements. It's by no means solid or debugged, but people were interested & I figure I can get a few decent bug reports by posting it. The system I run it off of is a 2.25Mb RAM (1Mb RAM-disk sometimes), 1 3.5 floppy & a 60Mb hard drive, so you can see that I don't stress the low end very much. -- Scott Lindsey |"Cold and misty morning. I heard a warning borne in the air Claris Corp. | About an age of power when no one had an hour to spare" ames!claris!wombat| DISCLAIMER: These are not the opinions of Claris, Apple, wombat@claris.com | StyleWare, the author, or anyone else living or dead.