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From: jtn@zodiac.ADS.COM (John Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SimCity RipOff
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Date: 8 Dec 89 20:22:18 GMT
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In article <111900101@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> sapg0386@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>I bought my mac + in september.  I have been writing programs in C and it
>has been working fine.  This week I thought I would buy a game and play
>a little.  So I went to my mall software outlet and bought simcity.
>
>What a mistake.  I get it home and put it in the computer and all it can
>do is ask me to insert the original simcity disk.  It can't tell that 
>the original simcity disk is already in there.  Finally I dig out the 
>system manual and get the disk ejected.  I put it back in and again
>it says to insert the original simcity disk.  At least now it knows to 
>eject it.  But you can go through this cycle n times where n is any
>positive integer.  At 40 bucks I expect to get a little more than this.

Easy there... I have no such problems with SimCity on the Mac II.  I
assume you're trying to runlhe new colour version.  The only
significant problem with the colour SimCity is that mousing is a
little slow and stupid.

I've had no problems as you describe.




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