Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!turnkey!orchard.la.locus.com!fafnir.la.locus.com!fafnir.la.locus.com!cjkuo From: cjkuo@locus.com (Chengi Jimmy Kuo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Bug in Simearth, was Re: SIMEARTH anyone? Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 91 19:26:08 GMT References: <1991Mar17.162736.6981@topaz.ucq.edu.au> <694@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl> <24629@hydra.gatech.EDU> <235@ebirah.cs.utexas.edu> Organization: Locus Computing Corporation, Los Angeles, California Lines: 19 russw@cs.utexas.edu (Russ Williams) writes: >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 Instructions specifically say, if you get this bug, try again with no CONFIG.SYS (or minimal since you might have a mouse) and no autoexec (i.e. nothing else that ties up memory) and make sure you have enough memory (I think 540K). I got that message too. Then I ran as directed and haven't seen it since. Jimmy Kuo -- cjkuo@locus.com "The correct answer to an either/or question is both!"