slc@hoptoad.uucp (Steve Costa) (06/11/89)
I too was having some problems running Sim City from my normal setup (2000 with 2-partition HD & 2 floppies). I called Maxis (the publisher), and according to them Sim City won't work if you have more than two drives, including hard disk partitions. They said they recently discovered it and will fix it. How they managed to create such a problem is a mystery to me. It seems like you'd have to go out of your way to create a program that screwed up due to having more than two drives. I'm also having trouble using their "Print City" menu item to print the map on my new HP Deskjet Plus. After each graphics pass, the printer spits out the current sheet of paper. That line does look nice though. I could always cut and paste the sheets. :-) Despite this, and an occasional lockup, the game is fun.
dwl10@uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) (06/12/89)
In article <7619@hoptoad.uucp> slc@hoptoad.UUCP (Steve Costa) writes: > >I too was having some problems running Sim City from my normal setup (2000 >with 2-partition HD & 2 floppies). I called Maxis (the publisher), and >according to them Sim City won't work if you have more than two drives, >including hard disk partitions. They said they recently discovered it and >will fix it. > As I mentioned earlier, SimCity works fine on my stock 2500. Thats with 3 HD partitions, and DF0: >on my new HP Deskjet Plus. After each graphics pass, the printer spits out >the current sheet of paper. That line does look nice though. I could always >cut and paste the sheets. :-) > I get a blank stripe between each printed stripe! >Despite this, and an occasional lockup, the game is fun. I LOVE it! -- "What is another word | Dave Lowrey | [The opinions expressed MAY be for 'Thesaurus'?" | Amdahl Corp. | those of the author and are not | Houston, Texas | necessarily those of his Steven Wright | amdahl!dwl10 | employer] (`nuff said!)
thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) (06/13/89)
Ohmigosh. SimCity's problems related to how many DRIVES on one's system? That explains why it didn't work when I just tried it on both the office Amigas here; and if you saw how many drives I have on my home Amiga you'd faint! :-) Still bizarre, though: even with 4 floppies and a "lot" of HDs, the AVAIL program indicates I still have "largest available CHIP" > 375K. Marble Madness and numerous other games operate just fine on the same systems. Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]
berry@stsci.EDU (Jim Berry) (06/15/89)
From article <7619@hoptoad.uucp>, by slc@hoptoad.uucp (Steve Costa): > I too was having some problems running Sim City from my normal setup (2000 > with 2-partition HD & 2 floppies). I called Maxis (the publisher), and > according to them Sim City won't work if you have more than two drives, > including hard disk partitions. They said they recently discovered it and > will fix it. That's odd. I have a 2.5M A1000 with 2 floppies and 2 HD partitions and SimCity runs fine (from the hard drive). Admittedly, if I have a lot of windows open (or extra screens) it sometimes hangs. SimCity opens extra-halfbright screens and so uses a LOT of chip ram. From what I've heard (I haven't tried, though), it opens as big a screen as it can (just like everybody's been complaining that everything should) so if you use morerows it will use even more chip ram. I read on Genie that Maxis was going to distribute one of the games files (SimData3, I think) that will cause the game to not use EHB, so it will be a little kinder with chip ram. If you have a mondo Agnes, though, I guess you don't care... Nice game. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Berry | UUCP:{arizona,decvax,hao}!noao!stsci!berry Space Telescope Science Institute | ARPA: berry@stsci.edu Baltimore, Md. 21218 | SPAM: SCIVAX::BERRY, KEPLER::BERRY