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From: kevin@crash.cts.com (Kevin Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Railroad Tycoon
Message-ID: <1991May29.232429.24204@crash.cts.com>
Date: 29 May 91 23:24:29 GMT
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In <12188@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> mblakele@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Tad Blakeley) writes:


>	Back on the subject of Railroading under 7.0, I'm having problems
>with my vanilla Mac II, PMMU, 5 meg, 4 bit.  VM, for instance, makes the
>map-building module crash and burn.
>	So I don't use VM.  Then I can play the game, but odd things keep
>happening.  For instance, if I remove a station from a train's route, the
>train may take "Signal Tower" as its objective, giving me an "impossible
>destination" error.  I can override it with a priority destination, but
>then it'll be back.
>	After I played for several hours, I also began to have mapping
>problems.  Random sections of line would appear or disappear from the station
>selection map, and eventually the whole map collapsed to a point.  Saving,
>rebooting, and restarting the file had no effect.
>	I'm in the midst of init testing now, to discover the roots of the
>problem.  If anyone knows the cause of these "features," I'd love to hear
>from you.
>							thanks,
>							tad

  I am also having problems such as these.  I have a Mac Plus, (ug, slowness
to the nth degee!!)  and I also have the signal tower problem.. Usually, I
just kill the whole route list of the train and rebuild it.. That can cause
problems to as the train that is full of Coal bound for San Fran to be turned  
into Goods and then go to Sacramento, suddenly is bound for Sacramento with
a load of useless coal... Ugg, again, use priority shipping to get it where
you want to go..  I like the game too much to stop playing, but please lets
get a update here soon!
  Also, my map seems to die sometimes to, don't know why, but it does. Ah well.
Also, System 7 and rail tycoon do not mix, at least with the mac plus.. I have
heard reports that it is a call to changepalette that causes the problem with
us lower machines. |).   
   I did try the init that someone loaded to me but it seems to crash my machine
when I go to restart or shut it down...

-Kevin