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From: chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu (Chris Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New videogame offering 'Beast'
Message-ID: <463fabe8.10131@sequoia.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 15 Oct 89 21:26 GMT
References: <125648@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <42600052@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu (Chris Lang)
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In article <42600052@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> kai@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu writes:
>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 the exact same problem with "Beast".  I had thought it was
perhaps due to a somewhat flakey drive and the copy-protection scheme,
but maybe not.  My machine is even more vanilla - a 1000 with external
floppy and 1 Mb of RAM.  (Plus a hard drive that was not connected at the
time.)

Does ANYONE have an idea why the game does this?  I don't want to have to
take it back just because of this; it really does look like a nice game.

 -Chris

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