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From: tribby@hpindda.HP.COM (David Tribby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Shanghai, GS version
Message-ID: <6230002@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Feb 88 17:14:12 GMT
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g-mccann@gumby.cs.wisc.edu (Lester I. McCann) writes:
> I bought Shanghai quite a long time ago, and I've enjoyed playing it.
> Recently, I discovered that in several situation, the "Show all moves"
> option will miss certain moves 

I too noticed this problem on the version I bought in December. 

My copy had a problem that was hard to miss: when I would win a game, the
program would print a "Contact Activision--System Error xx" message and
crash into the monitor. After experimenting, I found that moving the DRAGON1
and DRAGON2 files from /SHANGHAI to /SHANGHAI/SYSTEM solved the problem.

Before playing around with files on the Shanghai disk, I made a copy of the
disk via the desktop (not bit copying). The program worked fine, except it
always produced the same pattern of tiles! When I tried to do an image copy
of the Shanghai disk (via the Pascal Filer), I found it was copy protected.

While experimenting, I occasionally was able to "Backup a Move" when there
were no tiles removed. Shanghai stuck a couple of tiles on the screen in the
middle. They would sometimes disappear during the course of the game, but
return when the screen was redrawn after a dialog window.

There problems are relatively minor, and I certainly enjoy playing the game.

Dave Tribby
tribby@hpda!hplabs.HP.COM