max@psc90.UUCP (Laurianne Olcott) (02/24/90)
To Andrew Rossmann,
I don't know if it's related or not but thought this might be of help.
I have a 1000SL and when I first got I got a copy of ULTIMA 5 also. The
game ran fine for a few minutes, then completely hung up (sound
familliar?). *Everything* else ran fine though, so I took it to Radio
Shack and completely stumped them with that one. The box for Ultima said
it worked on 256K, which was convient cuz that's what I had at the time.
While the machine was in, I had them upgrade the memory to 640K. After
that the game ran fine. It *appears* the program was trying to address
memory that wasn't there with 256K. I know you said you have 640K
installed, so you might just check to see that all the chips are seated
fully, etc, you may be running into the same thing. That's may best (and
only) guess.
Hope this helps.
-David Berkebile-