phil@rice.edu (William LeFebvre) (09/29/87)
After waiting all summer, I finally received my A2000 yesterday (without the second internal drive, but at least it runs). During the summer, I ussed a friend's 1000 rather extensively and collected a modest amount of software. The ONLY piece of retail software I purchased was EA's Marble Madness, because I could never resist it in the arcades. After getting the 2000 running and twiddling with the preference settings, I started trying out older software to see if it worked. All of my free and shareware software worked just as well (or poorly) as it did on the 1000. But Marble Madness, the ONLY piece of software I purchased outright, does not work. Kind of ironic, huh? After booting, I open the disk and double click the marble icon. It starts up and puts its introductory screen up. Then it whirs and clicks away, jusst like it used to. But when it stops reading from the disk, nothing happens. The screen stays the same and the machine appears to be idle (the cursor still moves). Selecting does nothing, but trying to pull down the screen to get back to the workbench makes the MM screen disappear! I tried booting the MM disk and then running "nofastmem" off of the workbench shipped with the machine, but MM did the same thing. Anyone got any ideas? I guess I should call EA and see if anyone there has a clue. This makes me a little nervous since I have several other pieces of purchased software (i.e.: not free and not shareware) on order and due to arrive any day now. I hope they work. The EA warranty does not guarantee the software: it is sold "as is". Seems likely that other software is the same way. If anyone has any suggestions, please send me mail (and you might want to post as well)....we are about to switch news machines and we might not get news for a few weeks. By the way, the 2000 works great. The disk is quiet and it is nice to see the workbench say "921234 bytes free". Now all I need is a hard disk....and my second drive....and some more memory....and a better monitor....and some more software....and a 68020 card....and an MMU.... and some more software....and a digitizer....and a genlock....and some more software....and a printer...and..........AIIEEEEEEEEEEE! William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice University <phil@Rice.edu>