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From: rick@jessica.stanford.edu (Rick Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Shanghai (some problem related questions)
Keywords: shanghai
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Date: 31 Jul 90 17:09:03 GMT
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In article <156@ub.d.umn.edu> halam2@ub.d.umn.edu (Haseen I. Alam) writes:
>
> I bought Shanghai 2.0 (color version) a few months back.  But it does
> not work properly on my IIci.  I called up Activision once again today,
> and they still do not have any plans for a fix.  The game is playable
> but everytime I try top get a new game or choose any of the other options
> like Tournament or challenge it chokes under uni-Finder and quits under
> Multifinder.  Does this work ok on the IIc, IIcx and IIfx?  I saw a posting
> some time back, saying that someone has it running on the IIci, but he
> uses Virtual.  Well I do not intend to buy Virtual just to play Shanghai.
>
> Haseen.
>

How much memory are you running it with?  I run it in a 1500K MultiFinder
partition on a IIci and IIfx, and it works fine.  (With the suggested 800K
partition, it always crashed whenever I tried to start a new game.)

One of the better reasons to get a memory upgrade....

Rick Wong
rick@jessica.stanford.edu