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- From: wyattw@tekig1.pen.tek.com (Wyatt A Webb;629-1592;92-835;tekig1.pen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
- Subject: Re: AG! IT WON'T RUN!
- Message-ID: <WYATTW.92Dec22090010@tekig1.pen.tek.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 17:00:10 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.023719.162721@bmug.org>
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- Organization: Tektronix - Application Software Development
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- In-reply-to: Ron_Hunsinger@bmug.org's message of 21 Dec 92 10:37:19 GMT
-
- In article <1992Dec21.023719.162721@bmug.org> Ron_Hunsinger@bmug.org writes:
-
- >Tried hacking Dark Castle with a ton of stuff, and it would NOT
- > run under sys 6 and on a Mac IIsi no matter what I did.
- >
-
- The Problem with Dark Castle is that he used the alternate screen buffers.
- That means it won't run on any machine where he can't get to the alternate
- screen buffers. Period.
-
- Reasons why he might not be able to get to the ASB:
-
- 1) It isn't there. (Mac XL, any Mac II, any machine after the SE)
-
- 2) Any INITs have loaded into high memory (i.e., in the "above BufPtr"
- world). Such INITS would have already staked out the ASB memory as
- their own. Include MacsBug in this category.
-
- 3) You are running with MultiFinder. (MultiFinder does not honor requests
- for the ASB, because IT has already staked out that memory for its
- own use.
-
- 4) You have a disk cache turned on. Same reason.
-
-
- >These programs have a dedicated system(like DarkCastle had/has).
-
- Apple Licensing Restrictions forbid the distribution of modified
- system files. What Dark Castle did (I believe) was distribute their
- game on a disk with the standard system but no troublesome INITS.
-
-
- **** From Planet BMUG, the FirstClass BBS of BMUG. The message contained in
- **** this posting does not in any way reflect BMUG's official views.
-
-
-
- Interestingly enough, my sister's Mac IIci running 7.0.1 with Tuneup
- 1.1.1 runs Dark Castle off the hard drive with no problem. That
- disputes points 1, 3, and 4 since it is a Mac II class machine, it is
- always running Multifinder, and under System 7 you cannot turn the disk
- cache off!
-
- I haven't tried in quite a while, but I was running Dark Castle off my
- hard drive as well and I've rarely, if ever, run without several
- inits...
-
- I do know that my version isn't 1.0, but something like 1.0.1 or so.
- Perhaps this was a bug fix to allow Mac II and Multifinder users to
- play...
-
- Good Luck!
-
- -Wyatt
-
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