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From: gford@nunki.usc.edu (Gregory Ford)
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Subject: Armor Alley
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Date: 3 Oct 90 23:17:26 GMT
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Has anyone tried out this game yet, in multi-player mode?  I bought the
game myself, and it runs fairly well in single-player mode (I won't
tell you about the saved games that became corrupted overnight -- the
games I had been playing for several hours, that is).  My roomie has
an SE (I have a Mac II), and we are appletalked together, so we thought we
would try it out.  

He took my originals and typed in some bogus serial number (the docs say
it has to be a different serial number when you play multi-player).  The
game beeped a few times, and didn't like his serial number until he finally
guessed a good one.  No, No, No, I'm not advocating pirating software, but
this was to try out the multi-player mode.  Didn't matter -- it didn't work.

First we couldn't get it to run on the SE.  Turned off the RAM cache like it
said, even turned off all the inits, still no good.  Finally, we resolved
to turning off multifinder (runs fine in MF on my Mac II) and it ran
on the SE.  Selected the "Appletalk" under Network or whatever menu command
that was, and it was impossible to get a game running.  Appletalk rarely 
found the other computer.  Whenever it did, one or the other machines would
crash when you selected "begin".  Then we tried the modem connection.  I
would call his computer, and the program would answer and immediately hang
back up.  He would call mine with the same result.  After 3 or 4 hours
of restarting machines, troubleshooting, we gave up.  

Armor Alley is a good game -- it had me hooked for a long while, but it
still has a good number of bugs.  I certainly hope they get them fixed
soon.  However, I don't recommend anyone buying this software with the
hopes the can play each other over appletalk or modems.   It just doesn't
work.  

Anyone else have any luck?

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