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From: t-jacobs@cs.utah.edu (Tony Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Solarian II-Mac 2ci-BOMBA!
Message-ID: <1990Jan17.233716.18862@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 18 Jan 90 06:37:16 GMT
References: <7520@shlump.nac.dec.com> <15560@well.UUCP>
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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In article <15560@well.UUCP> nilesinc@well.UUCP (Avi Rappoport) writes:
>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?
>-- 

I think you have a bad copy. I have an 8-bit color CX and it works just fine
and I only have 2 meg.




Tony Jacobs * Center for Engineering Design * U of U * t-jacobs@cs.utah.edu