scroll@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Steve Croll) (01/02/91)
Has anyone had any luck in keeping "Buck Rogers - Countdown to Doomsday" from crashing on an Amiga 3000? Sometimes I can play for a couple hours between crashes but normally it crashes every 10 minutes or so. I have the program installed on my harddrive and have tried all sorts of things to try to get it to work reliably. I have tried running under 1.3 & 2.0 and that seems to have no effect. I have tried the game with both caches turned off (and also both on) -- no effect. I have tried setting the stack to large numbers (80,000 bytes) -- no effect. Sometimes when I start the game, it comes up with an insert disk "Buck2" requester that I cannot get to go away. I have tried assigning Buck2 to the directory on the harddrive but that has no effect. When this happens, I must reboot the machine (as the game hangs waiting for the requester to be satisfied). What is really weird is if I start the game from (say) the Workbench and I get the requester, I must reboot and start the game from the CLI or I again get the requester. This works both ways (start the game from the CLI, get the requester, reboot, MUST start the game from the Workbench or I get the requester). When the game crashes, the machine freezes. If I wait a long enough or if I reboot (CTRL-Amiga-Amiga) I get a memory freed twice error (81000009). I have gotten some weird results running the Enforcer. It seems the program likes to do longword reads of location $6 (!) and likes to read bytes at location $155. It does these so often that I have not run the Enforcer for more than a few "game moves" (the game moves unbearably slow with all the Enforcer hits). I have tried calling the tech. support number. They said they did extensive testing (but only on an Amiga 500 & 2000). The guy said he knew of no problems and the only thing he could suggest is to send the disks back and they would replace them with a new ones. I guess I will try this, but with "no known problems" I doubt they have a fix. -- -- Steve Croll (internet: scroll@reef.cis.ufl.edu home: 904-373-8389)