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From: dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM (Dale Snell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Save your money re: FALCON
Summary: ...and another one bites the dust.
Message-ID: <1978@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM>
Date: 29 Dec 88 07:50:05 GMT
References: <12895@cup.portal.com> <10736@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM (Dale Snell)
Organization: The Thumps Memorial Home for the Recursively Bemused
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In article <10736@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
  [Thad flames Spectrum Holobyte because FALCON won't work with a 68020.]
|I watched someone try to get it to boot on a stock A2000 with expansion
|mem. It got partway through the boot sequence and hung. At the computer
|store, they couldn't get it to boot on any of their machines. 

|They are sending their copies back.

     Good!  Maybe that'll get somebody's attention.

     Another game you can add to the list is "Annals of Rome".  This one
does boot.  However, if you have *any* extra memory beyond the first 512K
of CHIP Ram, the text is completely obscured.  I spent about fifteen minutes
last Saturday trying to get this sucker to work.  A friend of mine had
bought it, and it wouldn't work on his 1 Meg A500.  He brought it over to a
mutual friend's place to try it on his stock A2000.  Same problem.

     The game boots up, running AmigaDOS, and seems to start just fine. 
Then it puts up a map of the "world", and starts to print some numbers in
each country.  Well, that's what's supposed to happen.  Actually all we saw
were grey rectangles.  We tried various combinations of NoFastMem,
SetPatch, 1.2, 1.3...  No change.  Finally, we told our friend to take the
game back to the dealer.  Of course, the dealer has been showing this on
stock (512K) A500s, where it works just fine.  It also works on a 512K
A1000 -- we tried it.  Gahh!  Another one for the fecal roster.  :-(

|***  Sean Casey                        sean@ms.uky.edu,  sean@ukma.bitnet

    --dds

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