taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) (03/13/90)
I was at a friend house over the weekend to check out his new Macintosh
IIcx. One of the things we tried was a brand new right-outta-the-
box copy of the arcade game "Arkanoid". Much to our surprise, though,
it didn't want to work, even when we rebooted off the disk itself, rather
than the internal hard disk. Admittedly, he only has 1 MB RAM, but if
we're running just finder and no INITS, that should be enough...
Because when we went next store and tried the game on a Mac SE with only
1 MB RAM it worked flawlessly (and what a COOL game! :-).
Possible differences I can come up with:
the IIcx has different ROMS
the IIcx has a 256-bit color monitor
(but we tried it in 2bit B&W and it failed)
the IIcx has a distinct and different video board
That's about it. The company, Discovery Software, has gone out
of business due to a fight over ownership of a graphics/photo
editing program, so we can't call them and ask them about it. The
box, however, indicates that the program will run on Mac II systems.
The real problem; I want to get a copy for my own use, but I have a
Mac IIci, and if it fails on the cx, it's quite likely to fail even
more dramatically once exposed to 32bit QuickDraw! :-( Or does it?
I would be delighted to hear from people that have successfully run
Arkanoid on either the IIcx or the IIci -- including your system
configuration -- and whether it was easy or hard to accomplish...
One final note: if it *does* run on a IIci, then I'm interested in
finding a used copy of the game (it's nice, but $50.00 [the recommended
retail price] is an awful lot for a single game) too... ;-)
-- Dave Taylor
Intuitive Systems
Mountain View, California
taylor@limbo.intuitive.com or {uunet!}{decwrl,apple}!limbo!taylor