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From: russw@cs.utexas.edu (Russ Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Bug in Simearth, was Re: SIMEARTH anyone?
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Date: 20 Mar 91 20:14:48 GMT
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I like SimEarth too, but it's got a very bad bug: you can't leave it
running just to see how the world evolves "untouched by human hands".
After a while (15' to 1/2 hour) it crashes with a message:

run-time error R6000
-stack overflow

(which seems to be a Microsoft C message, by the way)...

That's very annoying to me because I wanted to run a bunch of worlds and
see how likely different classes were to become sentient, and what variation
there was, etc.

This happened under DOS 3.2 and 3.3, on a 486 and a 286, with EGA and VGA...

Anyone know a fix for this, or seen it happen?

Russ