[comp.sys.mac.games] Solarian and System 6.0.7

bradk@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (Brad Kollmyer) (01/22/91)

I just installed System 6.0.7 and now Solarian is having a problem
playing it sounds. I have version 1.03. Has anyone else come across
this? Is it just the new sound manager in System 6.0.7 causing
problems?

Thanks
Brad Kollmyer
bradk@wimsey.bc.ca

CAH0@bunny.gte.com (Chuck Hoffman) (01/22/91)

In article <1516@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> bradk@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (Brad 
Kollmyer) writes:
> I just installed System 6.0.7 and now Solarian is having a problem
> playing it sounds. I have version 1.03. Has anyone else come across
> this? Is it just the new sound manager in System 6.0.7 causing
> problems?

I have System 6.0.7 and Solarian II running on a Mac-II, Mac-IIcx, and
a Mac-IIsi.  The current release of Solarian II is 1.04, which you get by
sending in your shareware fee (along with three other diskettes of stuff
from the author).  On the Mac-II, things are slower, and sometimes one
sound which is still playing prevents the next sound from coming out.
No sound problems at all on the IIcx and IIsi.

The only problem I have seen is that often, when first starting up, the
screen is not cleared between the author's shareware notice, and the first
screen containing the scoreboard.  You end up with the scores superimposed
over the shareware notice, but it doesn't hurt anything.  You just click
the mouse, and the screen clears and the game starts normally.


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hasses@prism.cs.orst.edu (Stephen Haase) (01/23/91)

 I've noticed the same thing. v1.02 always played the sounds. but v1.03 skips
 some, cuts off others...ack, I wish I hadn't overwritten my v1.02..oh well..
 it still plays.. But I NEVER get to hear the free man sound...ack
 BTW //ci w/5 megs, system 6.07 if that makes a difference..

n074ez@tamuts.tamu.edu (Joe Bezdek) (01/23/91)

I'm running a Mac IIsi with system 6.0.7 and Solarian II works fine -
sounds and all.

Joe

bradk@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (Brad Kollmyer) (01/23/91)

I get the same kind of missing sound that you get. I have an fx with 8MB.

Brad