russw@cs.utexas.edu (Russ Williams) (03/21/91)
I like SimEarth too, but it's got a very bad bug: you can't leave it running just to see how the world evolves "untouched by human hands". After a while (15' to 1/2 hour) it crashes with a message: run-time error R6000 -stack overflow (which seems to be a Microsoft C message, by the way)... That's very annoying to me because I wanted to run a bunch of worlds and see how likely different classes were to become sentient, and what variation there was, etc. This happened under DOS 3.2 and 3.3, on a 486 and a 286, with EGA and VGA... Anyone know a fix for this, or seen it happen? Russ
AVP100@psuvm.psu.edu (03/21/91)
I saw a bug fix released on the gampub forum on Compu$erve. It addressed the R
6000 among several others.
A.P.cjkuo@locus.com (Chengi Jimmy Kuo) (03/22/91)
russw@cs.utexas.edu (Russ Williams) writes: >I like SimEarth too, but it's got a very bad bug: you can't leave it >running just to see how the world evolves "untouched by human hands". >After a while (15' to 1/2 hour) it crashes with a message: >run-time error R6000 >-stack overflow Instructions specifically say, if you get this bug, try again with no CONFIG.SYS (or minimal since you might have a mouse) and no autoexec (i.e. nothing else that ties up memory) and make sure you have enough memory (I think 540K). I got that message too. Then I ran as directed and haven't seen it since. Jimmy Kuo -- cjkuo@locus.com "The correct answer to an either/or question is both!"