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From: lbaum@bcsaic.UUCP (Larry Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Why won't Solarian work for me?
Message-ID: <27929@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 90 16:12:59 GMT
References: <27911@bcsaic.UUCP>
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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In article I wrote:
: I have a Mac II with a Radius Color Monitor.  I am running System 6.0.4
: and even if I turn off all my INITs I get this behavior:
: 
: The title and help screens come up fine, but when I start the game,
: each image seems to be repeated 5 or 6 times spaced evenly along the
: horizontal, but each image is incomplete; i.e. I get 5 or 6 incomplete
: images of my homeship spaced across the screen.  Actually, I think there
: are 10 or more, but in any case it is unusable.  The copy works fine on
: a friend's machine and he is using the same version of the System that I
: am.  I think his monitor is a SuperMac.
: 
: Any ideas?  Anyone else seen this behavior?

I have now verified that Solarian just doesn't work on Radius color
monitors.  I tried it on 6 different Macs of various types, all with
Radius monitors, and got the same behavior.  The same copy works fine on
SuperMac and Sony monitors.  In fact there was one Mac with both a
Radius and Sony monitor attached and when I set things up so that
Solarian ran on the Sony, it worked fine, but when I switched it to the
Radius it didn't.


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Larry Baum
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