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From: berry@stsci.EDU (Jim Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: More Sim City
Message-ID: <620@stsci.edu>
Date: 15 Jun 89 15:47:38 GMT
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From article <7619@hoptoad.uucp>, by slc@hoptoad.uucp (Steve Costa):

> I too was having some problems running Sim City from my normal setup (2000
> with 2-partition HD & 2 floppies). I called Maxis (the publisher), and
> according to them Sim City  won't work if you have more than two drives,
> including hard disk partitions. They said they recently discovered it and
> will fix it.

That's odd.  I have a 2.5M A1000 with 2 floppies and 2 HD partitions
and SimCity runs fine (from the hard drive).  Admittedly, if I have a lot 
of windows open (or extra screens) it sometimes hangs.

SimCity opens extra-halfbright screens and so uses a LOT of chip ram.
From what I've heard (I haven't tried, though), it opens as big a screen
as it can (just like everybody's been complaining that everything should)
so if you use morerows it will use even more chip ram.

I read on Genie that Maxis was going to distribute one of the games files
(SimData3, I think) that will cause the game to not use EHB, so it will
be a little kinder with chip ram.  If you have a mondo Agnes, though, I 
guess you don't care...

Nice game.

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