mike@trilby.UUCP (mike) (06/22/89)
I have a 500 with a 501 memory adapter and a CLtd SCSI. I meg is no longer enough. What memory expansion options do I have. I would prefer internal but wonder about the power supply. Any help would be appreciated. Also now that I have my hard disk I would like to put some games on it that DONT require a reboot every time. A list went by a while ago but at the time I didn't have a hard disk. If someone could drop that list in the email to me I would appreciate it. Thanks Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Hammond killer!trilby!mika!mike -or- uunet!edsews!trilby!mika!mike "I can't be overdrawn!!! I have checks left!!!"
disd@hubcap.clemson.edu (Gary Heffelfinger) (06/27/89)
From article <134@trilby.UUCP>, by mike@trilby.UUCP (mike): > Also now that I have my hard disk I would like to put some games on it that > DONT require a reboot every time. A list went by a while ago but at the > time I didn't have a hard disk. If someone could drop that list in the > email to me I would appreciate it. I don't have a list, but when you find it, add these two: SimCity --- Yes, the very same CHIP RAM hog that the net's been talking about for a few weeks. It runs pretty well from the HD. Requires that you have the original disk in a drive at startup time to use as a key-disk, but I can live with that. They actually had HD's in mind in their installation instructions. Prospector (in the Mazes of Xor) --- This one caught me by surprise. It is protected only by look-up-a-word-in-the-manual which is done only once right at the start. They also had HD's in mind. No ASSIGN's are necessary to get it to run. It appears to multi-task quite nicely and doesn't eat up tons of memory. A more detailed review will follow in another posting. Here's one you might like to avoid. I was lucky that I could take it back to the store. (Traded it for Prospector.) Test Drive II --- It is flashy. It even looked sort of fun. I was thrilled when I read in the manual that they too had made provision for HD's. So I write protected the *original* floppy, and started the system per the manual. (From a CLI, after booting my normal system, with all drive partitions mounted.) The game pauses and says "Disk is write protected, try again." THEY WANTED ME TO UNPROTECT THE ORIGINAL DISK!!!! Grumble. I did it, 'cause I wanted to try the game. I started the install. It copies the car and road data onto your HD as a so called, "play disk". Then I tried to run it. Har. First, even though you've created your play disk, it still loads large portions of the package from the original (write enabled) floppy. Gronk. Gronk. Okay, main menu comes up. Now you must choose the intuitive, "install" option again to switch "play disks" and tell it to look at your HD. Icky, but acceptable because it still has to load a quite bit of car and track info. So I played "merrily" along for about an hour. The game is not too bad, but I think they should've spent more time play-testing it on a hard disk system. I had at least 5 gurus in that hour. I expect better than that, so back to the store it went. Just as well, really, since I thought their copy protection and "play disk" method are dreadful and should be soundly condemned. I think they crippled an otherwise fine looking game. Is someone compiling a list of commercial games that behave well and run from a hard disk? If not, I volunteer. Gary -- Father of Kathryn Leigh Heffelfinger ------ disd@hubcap.clemson.edu ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^ 10 lbs, 3 ozs, 22 3/8" and 6 weeks of love.