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From: commons@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Peter Commons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Spaceward Ho!
Message-ID: <1991May22.225131.26013@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 22 May 91 22:51:31 GMT
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>I had a crash on a IIci running 6.0.4.  It also was during a HUGE battle
>against a hi-tech planet.  Every time I run from the file, it crashes at the
>"Battle Stage".  It is a repeatable error, and I have the file to prove it.
>
>I think I'll be doing some calls to Delta Tao...
>

Spaceward Ho! can get confused during very large battles, especially when 
it isn't given a lot of memory (it allocates a record for every ship in the
battle). This can lead to problems late in the game as mini-tech levels 
go way up and people have tons of money to use it. Most of the time, giving
Spaceward Ho! more memory & restarting it will fix the problem; not always.
Unfortunately you can't anticipate everything a user will do when you create
a new game.

A future version of Spaceward Ho! (August??) may not have these problems.
Sorry about the inconveniences.



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