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From: tesst4@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Tobish E Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Diamonds - some suggestions
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Date: 5 Feb 91 01:52:36 GMT
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Reply-To: tesst4@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Tobish E Smith)
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I've had Diamonds freeze up, too, in the same way that Dave described
a few letters back - i.e. everything stops, but the "Nobody" music
keeps on playing.  I'm obviously using 6.0.7, and I'm on a straight Mac II
with 8 Meg of RAM.  Assuming that it was one of my twentysome inits
causing the problem, I tried playing from a plain vanilla 6.0.7 startup
floppy.  Boom.  It's strange.  I've played (and crashed) with/without all
my inits, with and without multifinder.  It freezes infrequently enough that
I still play, and I know how to rescue it before it dies completely now.  
While playing, the ball noises (such as when hitting a wall, etc.) will die
out a few minutes before the game freezes.  If you simply quit when the
ball noises crap the bed, you can save yourself a reboot.

Tob