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From: chapman@ug.cs.dal.ca (Paul Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Robot games...
Keywords: Crashes, bugs, death
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Date: 11 Apr 91 17:57:22 GMT
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In article <13288@ur-cc.UUCP> duga@merlin.cvs.rochester.edu (Brady Duga) writes:
>Well, I downloaded Robot Battles from Sumex yesterday, but I can't seem to
>get it to work. I de-binhexed and unstuffed it twice, just to see if
>something went wrong the first time. I was running (eventually) on an
>SE, 2megs, no inits, in Finder, but it constantly crashed (always with
>id 2. Is that a Bus error?). Sometimes it would crash immediately, sometimes
>I would get to the startup screen and I got as far as the Main screen
>once. Has anyone else had similar problems? (I feel really stupid if
>the docs say this game doesn't run on the compact Macs...)

	I had the same problem -- System 6.0.3, no inits, etc.
Coincidentally, everyone who is reporting this has an SE (myself included).
I'm drawn to the conclusion that it's the SE the program doesn't like.
System error 2 is an address error, although I don't see why it would occur
only on one machine specifically, especially a fairly tame one..  Anyone
else have problems with the game on other Macs?

- Paul (chapman@ug.cs.dal.ca)