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From: kai@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New videogame offering 'Beast'
Message-ID: <42600052@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu>
Date: 15 Oct 89 05:20:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu!kai    Oct 15 00:20:00 1989


I borrowed the game for a weekend recently, and during those two days
my machine hung twice (once the screen went blank and the power transformer
made that high-pitched whine our old VT100 terminals made after the
supply was fried; the second time the Beast image half-appeared at the
bottom of the stairs when entering the tree, then the screen went bright
green, then black with intermittent short white horizontal lines).  Both
times I had been playing the game for an hour or more, and each time,
turning the machine off and on was sufficient to return to normal.  (My
machine is pretty vanilla; 2000 with 2088 and 8-Up DIP w/4meg).

I have had no other hardware problems before or since (the whining
power supply episode took my battery-backed clock back to 1978, too).
I decided not to buy the game after that experience, though it was a
hard decision;  it is an impressive game.
--
Chris Huson   Kuck & Associates, Inc.  1906 Fox Drive, Champaign, IL 61820
uiucuxc!kailand!chris       chris@kai.com