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From: austing@Apple.COM (Glenn L. Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: SimCity on FX
Message-ID: <43487@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 1 Aug 90 03:42:22 GMT
References: <8ah_hci00UjHM1E_xK@andrew.cmu.edu>
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jt1r+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jee Tien Tan) writes:

>Greetings Netters,

>I have an FX (I know - lucky me!) and it seems that SimCity
>bombs after a couple of seconds (when simulation begins)
>I tried cleaning my system from all inits etc but it doesn't
>work.

>Is SimCity incompatible with FX ??
>Will there be a release of a version that work with it?

The problem is that SimCity is not compatible with 32-bit QuickDraw.  Guess
what's in the ROMs of the IIci and IIfx.  You're right.  32-bit QuickDraw.
So until they (and Broderbund) fix their software to work with 32-bit QD, 
you won't be able to play it on your IIfx.

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