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From: clubmac@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Club Mac, Australia's Largest Mac Users Group)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Welltris, Falcon
Keywords: Welltris, Falcon, bugs
Message-ID: <1763@runxtsa.runx.oz.au>
Date: 29 May 90 08:00:46 GMT
References: <102471@convex.convex.com>
Organization: RUNX Unix Timeshare.  Sydney, Australia.
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In article <102471@convex.convex.com> russ@convex.COM (Russell Donnan) writes:
>Well I got Welltris last night.  I'm thinking to myself, "Great!  Another
>color game, finally!"  Yeah, right.  The color looks quite good, but
>doesn't work.  It drops about 5 pieces and then hangs the machine to the
>point that it needs to be rebooted.  SO, I called Spectrum Holobyte (SH)
>and asked them if they knew what the problem was.  She asked me if I was
>running 6.0.5, and I said yes.  Well, it doesn't work with 6.0.5, and we
>hope to get an upgrade to you soon.  I've heard this song before from them.

Don't blame Spectrum Holobyte for your stupidity. System 6.0.5 was not intended
for your Mac II, and Apple recommend 6.0.4 (which I use with Welltris, and
it's a damn good game)

>As you can imagine, I am not particularly happy with them at the moment.
>I think they must be deriving their compatibility issues from their PC
>department.  Unlike PCs, there are standard ways on the Mac to find out
>the capabilities of the video on hand.  Not to mention the fact that my
>system is 100% Apple, and all of the documentation is easily available
>to developers.  Anyone from SH out there care to make a comment?

I'm not from Spectrum Holobyte, but I'd like to make a comment. Welltris
probably cost you less than $30, and you're complaining with more vigor
than people I know who are having problems with programs worth over $2000.

Jason Haines