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From: scot@amigash.UUCP (Scot L. Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Simcity
Message-ID: <1194.AA1194@amigash>
Date: 16 Jun 89 05:31:27 GMT
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I have been following the discussion of problems with SimCity fairly
closely and finally decided to add my 2 cents worth.

First I want to say that SimCity is very good and has cost me many many
hours of time when I should have been programming. <grin>  That aside
the discussion of possible problems on starting up SimCity being either
number of drives or chip ram.  I believe the problem to be a shortage
of chip ram.  On amigash if I run it from my harddrive I have to shut
down just about all of my "standard environment".  This includes dcron,
tapestry, etc.  I have noticed by watching MachII that all but about 90K
of chip ram is appropriated by SimCity.  If I do not shut down most of
my environment then SimCity has a nasty habit of not starting up but it
does not release memory that it apparently has allocated.  

My only other real complaint with SimCity is having to insert the original
all the time.  Have not made a real effort at making a copy of the disk
yet but will have to try that real soon.  I would have much prefered a 
look up in the manual type protection scheme.

Currently have 85,000 or so citizens in a fairly stable city, now if 
I can only rebuild the airport which burned down after the plane crash.....



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