GAB100@PSUVM.BITNET (George A. Brownfield) (08/12/89)
Recently, I got the opportunity to try the new version (2.0) of Strategic
Conquest Plus. A friend of mine was in town, and we were having a good time
have plugged our two Mac Plusses together and having declared war on
each other <-= Anywho, when our game was interrupted by dinner, we decided
no problem, just save it and come back to it after (we went to a picnic).
When we came back, we couldn't get the game to open the saved game. If my
friend (who had run the Appletalk Master part of it and had the saved game
on his disk) tried double clicking on the saved game icon, we got the error
dialog box saying "application is busy or missing". We tried running another
two player appletalk game, but it doesn't offer us the restore game option.
We tried runing a one player game, and it would let us restore the two-player
game, but gave us a network error (which we were kind of expecting anyway).
Now the only solution I can think of a week later is that I don't think
he saved it when it was first created (the game offers a save game as box
when you first run it) and perhaps it has to be saved at that point to
be recognized as a two-player game. Other than that, we are stumped as to
why it will restore a single-player game, but not a two-player game.
Is this a known bug that we need to send back our brand new disk, has anyone
run across something similar? Help me if you can I'm feeling down.. <-=
(and the game crashed the second time, just when I had him in the crushing
jaws of reason... I mean jaws of infantry... ah, you get the idea <-=)
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George A. Brownfield GAB100 @ PSUVM
Aerospace Engineering Major
The Pennsylvania State University
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