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- Subject: Re: Trouble loading SIMLIFE...?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.094030.799@ualr.edu>
- From: showalter@acs.harding.edu
- Date: 13 Dec 92 09:40:30 -0500
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- In article <1992Dec12.005710.368@news2.cis.umn.edu>, spicer@barnacle.micro.umn.edu (Troy Spicer) writes:
- >In <1g7uhhINN9s7@crcnis1.unl.edu> ganderso@unlinfo.unl.edu (gary anderson) writes:
- >
- >>Has anybody out there had trouble loading SIMLIFE? I got the thing
- >>several days ago, and all I've seen so far are error messages.
- >
- >I've been keeping track of this on GEnie, and the patch is at this moment
- >in quality assurance. It may be available this weekend.
- >
- >I've got a problem where I can't play in 640x480. It will only load in
- >800x600. I fooled around in that mode (just stretched out and the colors
- >are all dull red, but semi-playable) and it kept crashing.
- >
- >Maxis' excuse is that it is their first game with EMS support.
- >
- One of Maxis's techs called me friday and left saying the Simlife patch
- is out and available on their BBS (I called them earlier complaining about
- video problems).
-
- Phil
-