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From: S6SR@unb.ca (Acker Hum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Question for owners of Populous
Message-ID: <3930@nigel.udel.EDU>
Date: 12 Nov 89 16:37:28 GMT
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> Last night, a friend and I were at the local WaldenSoft (replaced WaldenKids
> stores), and we asked the salesman if he could demo Populous.  "Sure, if it
> will run on our system."  After finding that the system was an A500 with the
> A501 expansion, my friend and I agreed that there should be no problem. BUT,
> alas, there was a problem.  The game would not load past the title screen,
> but GURUed with a "Not enough memory" error.  "Wow, must be a tight fit if it
> won't run in approx. 910-920k at startup.  Let's try unplugging the external
> drive."  Well, we did that since the drive would be eating a little CHIP RAM
> and we got about 948k out of it at startup.  So we started the game and it
> worked!  Or, did it?  Ok, here's my questions:
>
HI, long time owner of Populous here... I have an A500 and A501 and an
external drive (ie. AirDrive)... I haven't had any problems with my
setup... And I don't need to un-plug anything so it must be something
else....

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