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From: nilesinc@well.UUCP (Avi Rappoport)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Solarian II-Mac 2ci-BOMBA!
Summary: lotsa bombs
Message-ID: <15560@well.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 90 22:36:52 GMT
References: <7520@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Reply-To: nilesinc@well.UUCP (Avi Rappoport)
Organization: Niles & Associates, Inc.
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In article <7520@shlump.nac.dec.com> phil@vaxphw.enet.dec.com (Phil Hunt) writes:
>Hi Ho,
>
>Just a quick note to tell the net that Solarian II, that GREAT COLOR 
>arcade game for the Mac II and above DOES NOT work on a Mac 2Ci with
>Rasterops Color/264 board.  It displays the opening and help screens
>correctly, but when you try to start the game, bomba!
>
We've had lots of problems with Solarian.  DO NOT try to start it on a 
Plus!  The new version that was supposed to fix the color table bug
now won't start at all: claims not enough application memory at 2MB...
This is on a IIcx with 8-bit color, and 4MB of memory.

Perhaps the author could label it "Beta", so we know what we're getting
into?
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