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From: dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM (Dale Snell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Annals of Rome
Keywords: Game War
Message-ID: <2405@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM>
Date: 6 Jun 89 07:18:52 GMT
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Reply-To: dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM (Dale Snell)
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In article <0893.AA0893@caleb> jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) writes:
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|     I just bought (heavily discounted) a game called Annals of Rome.  It
|does not work with my B2000 (3 Meg RAM, A2090, etc.)  The game boots up to
|its normal screen and draws its map, but it never prints out the text that
|the manual says it does.  It has no menus, and I can't get it to do anything.

     Hah.  I'll bet it was heavily discounted.  :-(  This is one of those
games that won't work right if you have any memory other than half a meg
of CHIP ram.  You described the symptoms to a "T".  (It works fine in a
half meg 1000 or 500, btw.)  Since you have a 2000, you are well and
truly stuck, unless you can find a way to disable your $C00000 memory.

|I'm planning to try to call the company (PSS) that distributes it tomorrow.

     Give 'em hell.

|Is this another one of
|the infamous "doesn't work with FAST RAM" or "doesn't like A2000" games?

     You got it.  Disgusting, isn't it?  How long has the 2000 been
out? The 500?  Surely it's been long enough for developers to realize
that there are machines out there with more than the "stock" half-meg
of CHIP ram.  *grrrr*

					--dds

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