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From: cyosta@taux01.UUCP (Yossie Silverman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: ***WARNING*** don't use Continuum with disk chache on!!
Message-ID: <878@taux01.UUCP>
Date: 8 Aug 88 05:23:02 GMT
Reply-To: taux01!cyosta@nsc.UUCP (Yossie Silverman)
Organization: National Semiconductor (Israel) Ltd.
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Yesterday my mac died.  The Harddisk was unreadable by SCSI Setup.  MacZap
recovered the files but it took a while.  The last thing I did was play 
Continuum.  I am convinced that Continuum overwrote the disk cache and thus
mangled my Harddisk.  I find Continuum to be a very fine game but I think
it is EXTREMELY irresponsible to send out a game that has such an obvious
bug in it.  A question was asked a few days ago concerning how BDC handled
the high memory and second video buffer problem, well, it simply refuses
to run if it finds anything in its way.  In general, the safest course is
to run Continuum with a generic system (***NO*** INIT's, including EasyAccess,
MacroMaker and CloseView) and NO diskcache.  Alternateively it might be 
possible to turn on the alternate video buffer bit in the boot blocks, I
have not checked this yet.
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Yossie Silverman                                   What did the Caspian sea?
National Semiconductor Ltd. (Israel)				- Saki
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