jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) (06/01/89)
I just bought (heavily discounted) a game called Annals of Rome. It
does not work with my B2000 (3 Meg RAM, A2090, etc.) The game boots up to
its normal screen and draws its map, but it never prints out the text that
the manual says it does. It has no menus, and I can't get it to do anything.
I'm planning to try to call the company (PSS) that distributes it tomorrow.
Can anyone out there tell me what the problem is? Is this another one of
the infamous "doesn't work with FAST RAM" or "doesn't like A2000" games?
Thanks,
--
Jim Pritchett
UUCP: killer!gtmvax!dms3b1!caleb!jdpdales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM (Dale Snell) (06/06/89)
In article <0893.AA0893@caleb> jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) writes: | | I just bought (heavily discounted) a game called Annals of Rome. It |does not work with my B2000 (3 Meg RAM, A2090, etc.) The game boots up to |its normal screen and draws its map, but it never prints out the text that |the manual says it does. It has no menus, and I can't get it to do anything. Hah. I'll bet it was heavily discounted. :-( This is one of those games that won't work right if you have any memory other than half a meg of CHIP ram. You described the symptoms to a "T". (It works fine in a half meg 1000 or 500, btw.) Since you have a 2000, you are well and truly stuck, unless you can find a way to disable your $C00000 memory. |I'm planning to try to call the company (PSS) that distributes it tomorrow. Give 'em hell. |Is this another one of |the infamous "doesn't work with FAST RAM" or "doesn't like A2000" games? You got it. Disgusting, isn't it? How long has the 2000 been out? The 500? Surely it's been long enough for developers to realize that there are machines out there with more than the "stock" half-meg of CHIP ram. *grrrr* --dds Hark! Hark! The dogs do bark, | Dale D. Snell: dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM The Duke is fond of kittens. | UUCP: ...!tektronix!teksce!dales He likes to turn their insides out, | Compu$erve: 74756,666 And use their fur for mittens! | What's a disclaimer?
pl@etana.tut.fi (Lehtinen Pertti) (06/06/89)
From article <2405@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM>, by dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM (Dale Snell): > > You got it. Disgusting, isn't it? How long has the 2000 been > out? The 500? Surely it's been long enough for developers to realize > that there are machines out there with more than the "stock" half-meg > of CHIP ram. *grrrr* > More surprising to me is that developers themselves don't see problem. Does that mean that their machines have only 512k RAM. Sounds odd to me, but may very well be true. -- pl@tut.fi ! All opinions expressed above are Pertti Lehtinen ! purely offending and in subject Tampere University of Technology ! to change without any further Software Systems Laboratory ! notice
limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) (06/07/89)
In article <7481@etana.tut.fi> pl@etana.tut.fi (Lehtinen Pertti) writes: > From article <2405@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM>, by dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM (Dale Snell): > Does that mean that their machines have only 512k RAM. > Sounds odd to me, but may very well be true. Someone recently asked me about a program I wrote, "Does it work with fast RAM?" and I was pretty shocked. Are there any developers that still have 512K RAM? With the current set of development tools, how do they do it? > pl@tut.fi ! All opinions expressed above are > Pertti Lehtinen ! purely offending and in subject -- Tom Limoncelli -- tlimonce@drunivac.Bitnet -- limonce@pilot.njin.net Drew University -- Box 1060, Madison, NJ -- 201-408-5389 Standard Disclaimer: I am not the mouth-piece of Drew University