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From: howie@triton.tamu.edu (MATT_K_HOWARD)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Falcon 2.2 on the IIci
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Date: 4 Feb 91 16:36:08 GMT
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Earlier, I wrote that I had tried Falcon 2.2 on my IIci with mixed
results.  It ran, but because I was using the onboard video driver,
the menu bar doesn't blank and messages from base were not visible.
This is not a problem because the messages are more ornamental than
informative.  However, I found that I could not quit without a crash
(the mac not the aircraft) and thus was unable to save experience or
achievements.

I recieved a nice reply from Adrian (thanks Adrian) suggesting that I 
remove all inits and run under Finder only.  This didn't help but I was 
encourage by Adrian's expressed success with Falcon 2.2 and the IIci so 
I continued to look for a solution.  I have a 105 mb Quantum which is 
partitioned into four 25 mb drives using SilverLining.  I discovered that 
if I (1) removed all the inits and (2) ran Falcon from the same partition 
containing the system that I could quit without a system crash.  

Picky-Picky-Picky.

I wish that Falcon wasn't so particular about the machine settings.
Its been more than a year since it was updated, (but thats a hell
of a lot more recent than MicroSoft has updated theirs.)  And as long
as I'm complaining about a $30 piece of software... How about color...
and little Iraqi tanks to shoot at...