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Subject: Re: Games on a Mac II?
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Date: Mon, 7-Sep-87 10:46:15 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  7 10:46:15 1987
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Summary: Games on a MacII, maybe

In article <808@newton.physics.purdue.edu>, cca@newton.physics.purdue.edu (Charles C. Allen) writes:
> Well, my Mac II finally arrived, and I'm all set with the basic things
> like a word processor, a spreadsheet, etc.  Finding such software that
> works on a Mac II wasn't hard.  It would also be nice to have a game
> or two to relax with.  Unfortunately, it appears that people who write
> games for the Mac don't bother reading the Tech Notes.  I called up a
> couple places and found out that (for example) Chessmaster 2000 and
> Sub Battle Simulator don't work on a Mac II.
> 
> So, does anybody know of any games that DO work on a Mac II?
The "doesn't run on a Mac II" can result from any of a number of things, some
of which YOU can do something about.

If it was due to alternate screen buffer, you might as well forget it.

If it was due to self-modifying code nastiness like MacWrite, turn off the
instruction cache.  This is true of many of the programs written with earlier
versions of LSC, LSP, Turbo, MegaMax, etc.  MegaMax was also infamous for their
use of low memory global $2b6 (BasicGlob) which rendered ALL of their programs
unrunnable under System 4.1.  This can usually be patched by changing $02B6 to
$0A78 in the code resources.

If it was due to the copy protection, my personal philosophy is that if you buy
copy-protected software then you're asking for trouble anyway.

Dennis Cohen
Ashton-Tate Glendale Development Center
dBASE Mac Development Team
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Disclaimer: Opinions expressed above are my own, I don't know what (if any)
opinions my employer has.

PS: Yes, we shipped a week ago.