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From: kelso@mimsy.UUCP (Stephen Kelley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SinCity Blues
Keywords: SimCity, ChipMem Abuse
Message-ID: <18043@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 89 13:56:12 GMT
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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After a little more experimentation on my system I *definately*
think they have a memory management problem. Hey!! How about that
for a sequel - MemCity? SiMem??? (;-) You (the memory(bus?) master) lay
out memory maps that SimProgs build on.  As the "system" grows
parity errors, power "brownouts" & the dreaded "spikes" can be
introduced. Hmmmm... Lots of possibilities there....

Anyway, my setup is a 2 floppy + 4 (3 mounted) partition hard drive
A2000 w/ 1M fast + 1M chip (actually 1/2M chip - chubby(not fat) Agnes).
If I open & leave open the 3 windows in the path to SimCity (on the
hard drive, ofcourse), then click on the icon, then... Nothing.
If I close the two of them I don't need it will work. **But**, if I've
saved more than one game, then start up SimCity and click on either
the SimCity tool icon or any of the saved game project icons, again,
nothing. *However*, if I rename all the saved game icon files but
one I want to play, it will again work.

Sounds (& looks) like they need and take every byte of chip mem the
grubby litte Simms can find...  I think the reason my system works
at all is that I use fastmemfirst which puts my harddisk buffers
et al in my expanded mem.
-- 
Real:	Stephen Kelley, Welch Library, Johns Hopkins Univ.
Internet: stevek@welch.jhu.edu