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From: cem@cs.brown.edu (Charles E. Moylan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Spaceward Ho! 1.1 crashing
Keywords: locks up
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Date: 21 Feb 91 00:37:40 GMT
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In article <22473@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt4586c@prism.gatech.EDU (WILLETT,THOMAS CARTER) writes:
|> I've been playing Spaceward Ho! (how about SHo! for short?) for about a
|> week now and i've been experiencing crashes when i have too many players
|> in the game.  there's alot of disk accessing as the machine updates each
|> of the computer players and after a while it will just lock up and freeze
|> and i have to reboot.  has anybody else had problems like this?  i have
|> 800K of free disk space so i don't think its running out of room.

Yes, I've encountered this same problem, but I waited out the freeze.  After
about five minutes the game continued!  From then on each and every time the
program went through the calculations for the computer players' moves it
looked like the machine was frozen but after five minutes it would finish.
Needless to say, it was pure hell sitting there idle.  Of course, I was
put out of my misery when I encountered another bug that caused my stockpile
of 100,000 metal to become zero for no apparent reason and my money
to become negative 3 million.

-- 
Charlie Moylan (cem@cs.brown.edu)