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From: jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (J. Taggart Gorman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Harpoon Apologies
Message-ID: <664@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 91 06:14:27 GMT
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In article <6823@crash.cts.com> kevin@crash.cts.com (Kevin Hill) writes:
>
>  Is it just me or does Harpoon Crash at almost every game that you play.
>I am very disapointed in the bugginess of the product.  It is such 
>a good game that I do try to overlook the errors, but it gets really tiresome
>to have to save a game, and then quit, so that the finder records it and you 
>don't lose the data when the game does crash.
>And yes it will crash at least twice a game.  At LEast!

  I had the same problem myself.  My solution has let only to crashes get
through since I implemented it, and I believe those two occasions, which was
the Soviet Sub Surge played from the Soviet side, was caused by two many units
on my side.
  I find increasing the memory allocated to 1000K seems to get rid of the
crashes.  But, since I run it only in the finder, that shouldn't make a
diffence, right?  Maybe having a 5 meg IIsi helps!  :)

  On the note (brag!) of my model, I must say that it is a vast improvement
my poor old 4 meg Plus.  When I played Harpoon on it, I had to avoid all the
big scenarios, for it would run at a snail's pace.  A 20 mhz '30 chip solved
that!

|     John Taggart Gorman Jr.    | "I'm a no rust build up man myself."
|                                |          -Christian Slater
| jtgorman@caslon.cs.arizona.edu |             in 'Heathers'