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From: deva@cup.portal.com (David Michael Alves)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New videogame offering 'Beast'
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Date: 16 Oct 89 06:25:00 GMT
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>>>>Has anyone had any problems with Beast hanging on them at certain points
>>>>of the game?
>>>>---David Alves

>>>I haven't had problems with it; I have a very early 1000 with 512K RAM, as
>>>basic of a system as you get (it does have an external drive).  Admittedly,
>>>once it died when I first inserted the second disk, but that was the usual
>>>disk-seating problem that I have periodically, its being an extremely old
>>>drive and all.
>>>---Mike Hughey

>>No, I've used it on a 2000 and a 1000 and both seem to work fine. The game
>>does "hang" when it is about to read in a giant opponent but generally
>>after a moment or two Mr. Badguy appears and everything continues normally.
>>(Well generally I die but that is a different problem all together.) So far
>>it has never crashed.
>>---Chuck McManis

>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
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>bottom of the stairs when entering the tree, then the screen went bright
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>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).
>---Chris Huson


My experience has been the same as Chris Huson's.  The beast image half-
appears at the bottom of the stairs after entering the tree (home).  I
would like to think it is a problem with the disk and not my machine (all
my ram checks out OK).  So I'll be exchanging the disk for another in the
hopes of having a game that doesn't crash like Chuck and Mike seem to have.
Thanks for the input guys.
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