Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!mwk!greer From: greer@mwk.uucp Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: POWERMONGER: Are we buying release 0.90 ?READ Message-ID: <17.2792cf30@mwk.uucp> Date: 15 Jan 91 15:45:20 GMT References: <9DocV1w164w@halcyon.uucp> <9522@lmrc.uucp> Organization: M. W. Kellogg, Houston TX Lines: 59 In article <9522@lmrc.uucp>, hassinger@lmrc.uucp (Bob Hassinger) writes: > In article <9DocV1w164w@halcyon.uucp>, halcyon!elf@sumax.seattleu.edu (Elf Sternberg) writes: > ... >> Either I am incredibly unlucky, or I've got a major complaint >> about PowerMonger. I am now on my third (yes, Third) copy of >> PowerMonger, having returned the other two to the point of purchase. >> I have a base Amiga 2000 with one external drive and NOTHING >> ELSE; my diagnostic routines report full-power on all the chips, memoryis >> fine, and I just had the drives cleaned. >> It takes four or five re-boots to get PowerMonger to get past the >> Scenario selection screen. I have had the program freeze up on me >> several times. Sometimes, the program freezes up for up to thirty >> seconds before recovering. > ... > > I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one! > > I found that the ONLY way to use the game is to actually _unplug_ my second > drive. I can understand not using a second drive perhaps, but to have its > presence on the machine make the program hang is poor. > > My real problem though is that I too see the game just hang, or go-to-sleep > from time to time. You see the water still rippling and so on, but there is > no response to mouse clicks and things do not progress. Generally after a > while it wakes up again and goes on. A couple of days ago though I had a case > where it actually went to a Guru! > > I have been suspecting my hardware (A500, A501 & 1 Mb) but now with this post I > am beginning to think there might really be a problem in the software. Anyone > else seeing symptoms like this? > . . . > > Bob Hassinger > 508-435-9061 > hassinger@lmrc.UUCP or ...ccavax!lmrc!hassinger -- Hmmm -- on my machine (A500, Adram board, 1 Meg, CA-880 add-on drive) it works fine with a second drive attached. It even formats disks in DF0: with no disk in DF1:, which the manual says may not work! I have seen the freezing fairly often; it appears to me as though it is off in some routine which does not bother with updating the graphics or acknowledging commands (what's it doing?!). It will acknowledge at least one (maybe more) mouse click entered while it is frozen (at least under some circumstances). I did have it Guru on me once when it froze up, but I seem to recall (this was late, and after playing for a long time) that I got impatient and started doing things to see if I could make it unfreeze. I rather suspect a command buffering problem or something of the sort. Does anybody know anything more about this, or should I write and ask? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Greer (greer@mwk.uucp)| This stuff springs entirely from my own mind, and M. W. Kellogg | is neither endorsed by nor known to my employer, 601 Jefferson Ave. | the U. S. government, the Vogon Poetry Appreciation P. O. Box 4557 | Society, or any other entity wise enough to avoid Houston, TX 77210-4457 | reading it.