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From: robertj@yale-zoo-suned..arpa (Rob Jellinghaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Risk game
Message-ID: <22411@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Date: 4 Feb 88 05:23:08 GMT
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Reply-To: robertj@yale.UUCP
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT
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Summary: Arrgh!!  It almost works perfectly...

I just downloaded the PD Risk game that Jeff Meyer kindly distributed,
and it works just wonderfully on a Mac SE.

HOWEVER (knew that was coming, didn't you?):

I happen to have a Mac II.  On the II the program works very well
UNTIL: you either choose "About Risk..." or you try to look at your
cards (either by pressing the "Cards" button, or when the program
shows them to you).

When either of these things happens, the program quits.  No fanfare,
no bomb, it just quits and you return to the Finder.

This wouldn't be so bad except that it is the rare exception that
you have a game in which the program does not attempt to show you
your cards.  And when the program does this, blip, your game ends
(even though it had been going without a hitch up to that point).
The program never gets around to drawing the dialog boxes that it
should be displaying, by the way; it quits before it has a chance
to.  It seems like it can't get at the resources for its dialog
boxes (or something), so it quits.  However, it has no problem with
displaying the initial setup dialog box and with giving help from
that box (via the "Help" button).

I'm running the game off an Apple 40MB internal HD.  It makes no
difference whether the Mac is in 2-color or 16-color mode, whether
the icache is on or off, whether Multifinder is running or not.
It halts in exactly the same way in all these cases.

HELLLPP!!!!!  This is a great game and I wanna play it on my Mac!!!
Can anyone come up with a patch?  Or could the author of the game
come out with a revised version?  (Please contact me, Jeff, with any
info about this problem... I like this game!!)

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