Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!uwslh!lishka
From: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Christopher Lishka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: More on: Advanced Flight Trainer for C-64
Message-ID: <301@uwslh.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 88 00:30:22 GMT
References: <1019@edge.UUCP>
Reply-To: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Christopher Lishka)
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison, State Hygiene Lab
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In article <1019@edge.UUCP> doug@edge.UUCP (Doug Pardee) writes:
>I've never seen so many bugs in an Electronic Arts product before.  It's
>clear that they really wanted the C-64 version on dealers' shelves before
>Christmas, and the quality of the product seriously suffered.  I hope they
>plan to correct the bugs, and also to replace any buggy versions already
>in customers' hands.  But I'm not holding my breath...

	I think my favorite "EA-bug" was in the Pinball Construction
Set.  It never seemed to fail...I would be working on a pinball setup
for about an hour and a half, and the game would just plain crash.
After a couple I got wise and started saving my work periodically, but
the damned game still crashed.  It was always after about an
hour-and-a-half.  Made me rather annoyed that such a great game had
such a bad problem.  I never figured out what did it either.  It
always crashed at some random time between 1 1/2 and 2 hours.  Poor
quality control, if you ask me.  I wonder if they ever fixed it?

						-Chris




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Chris Lishka                    /lishka@uwslh.uucp
Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene <-lishka%uwslh.uucp@rsch.wisc.edu
"What, me, serious? Get real!"  \{seismo, harvard,topaz,...}!uwvax!uwslh!lishka