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From: commons@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Peter Commons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Spaceward Ho! 1.1 crashing
Keywords: locks up
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.012608.5915@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 21 Feb 91 01:26:08 GMT
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In past versions (before 1.1), the computer would occasionally take a very
long time to think about its move. The game didn't really crash; if you 
waited for a couple minutes, it would continue. This was at least greatly
repaired in 1.1, although it may still be there. The slowdown occurs when one
computer player controls a very large area of the galaxy.

The "negative money bug" - where your money goes negative- is definitely gone
in version 1.1.

A limited amount of free disk space will cause Spaceward Ho! to lose turn 
update information. 800K should be plenty.

All Version 1.0x uses will be receiving a free 1.1 upgrade in the next week or
so.



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Peter Commons		
commons@cs.stanford.edu	
Computer Science Department, Stanford University