Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!mips!wrdis01!gatech!purdue!haven!uvaarpa!vger.nsu.edu!cs170703644 From: cs170703644@vger.nsu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Accolade (in Search for the KING, StarControl) (was ) Message-ID: <858.280f5aa2@vger.nsu.edu> Date: 20 Apr 91 01:01:21 GMT References: <810.27fc3f2d@vger.nsu.edu> <1991Apr17.224131.16048@unislc.uucp> Lines: 37 In article <1991Apr17.224131.16048@unislc.uucp>, dave@unislc.uucp (Dave Martin) writes: > From article <810.27fc3f2d@vger.nsu.edu>, by cs170703644@vger.nsu.edu: >> Last night I bought a game from Accolade called Les Manley in Search >> for the KING. The premise is that megaweenie Les Manley will find the > .... >> However, it will not run. I can get through the opening animation some of >> the time, and a few times it even let me play through the first actual >> scenario. But it crashes my machine totally every single time. It doesn't >> seem to matter whether I play it from floppy or from hard disk, or what version >> of workbench I use. It crashes whether I am on a 1000, a 2000, or a 3000. >> Jean > Perhaps KING has a star control disk 2? (does KING come with more than one > disk?) Anyway I dont have star control now as a result (tried prev version > in store to see if it worked when I took mine back) because I want to > know whats different/fixed in the later version and now am waiting for > v 1.2 (or 1.3) to fix the disk 2 problem. > Search for the King now runs on my 2000. Turns out the problem was so tiny and so obscure...... You see, I had a little digital clock running in my title bar, as part of my startup sequence. Take out the clock, the game runs. Include clock, game crashes. We arrived at this after talking to a guy at Accolade AND to the programmer of the actual game. At first, we were blaming it on a screen blanker, or ImageFinder, or the fact that Les Manley just plain hated me. Anyway, I finished the game, re-installed clock and all is well. Jean | Lemmings is nothing more than an werjun@large / \ existentialist metaphor for the cs170703644@vger.nsu.edu \ / great cosmic rat race we call life. |