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From: rich@jolnet.UUCP (Rich Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: omega run problem
Message-ID: <419@jolnet.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 88 22:02:04 GMT
References: <2490001@acf5.NYU.EDU>
Reply-To: rich@jolnet.UUCP (Rich Andrews)
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In article <2490001@acf5.NYU.EDU> brighent@acf5.NYU.EDU (lxb) writes:
>We seem to be having a basic omega bug here.  After downloading the sources,
>we recompiled them for our machine (ATT 3B2) but, if we try to run it, we get
>a --> bus error - core dumped
>message.  Does anyone know whether it is due to (1) our dimness, (2) some
>inherent problems in the 3B2, (3) some minibug that was fixed long ago, (4)
>others?
>
>Any response will be greatly appreciated.
>
>lxb


I have the same problem here and have recently given up on the critter.
It seems that omega wants to allocate more ram than is available on 
a 2 meg 3b2.  I seems that it might run with 4 meg.  If these 
assumptions are wrong please post the real reason and a fix.


rich andrews




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