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From: ngg@bridge2.3Com.Com (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacII system crashes
Keywords: Mac II, system crashes
Message-ID: <357@bridge2.3Com.Com>
Date: 20 Feb 89 23:11:53 GMT
References: <418@salgado.stan.UUCP> <2282@unmvax.unm.edu>
Reply-To: ngg@bridge2.3Com.com (Norman Goodger)
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In article <2282@unmvax.unm.edu> mark@sleepy.cs.unm.edu () writes:
>
>The most common error I have gotten is ID=01, but I have also gotten errors
>ID=05, 11, and 23.  The programs include Video Works Player, Dungeons of Doom,
>Megaroids, Adventures of Snake, Hendrix, Pretty Good Terminal (PGT), and
>MacTest 7.0.
>The question I have is: Is the Mac II really that incompatible with other Macs?
>And is there any hope for my running these programs?
>Mark A. McLaughlin

Mark, its not that the Mac II is incompatable with other Macs, its that the
software you are attempting to use is not compatable with your Mac II for
a variety of reasons. Some software was written to be hardware specific, this
causes alot of problems. Some software relies on the alternate screen buffer
that the Mac II does not have. Some software was created with compilers
that just do not generate code that works with the 68020. And I am sure there
are some other reasons as well. A variety of the older games that you mention
probably fall into one of the above categories....

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Norm Goodger				SysOp - MacInfo BBS @415-795-8862
3Com Corp.				Co-Sysop FreeSoft RT - GEnie.
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