Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!reed!psu-cs!hoofb
From: hoofb@psu-cs.UUCP (Bruce Hoof)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ***WARNING*** don't use Continuum with disk chache on!!
Message-ID: <863@psu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 88 19:14:53 GMT
References: <878@taux01.UUCP>
Reply-To: hoofb@psu-cs.UUCP (Bruce Hoof)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Portland State University; Portland OR
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In article <878@taux01.UUCP> taux01!cyosta@nsc.UUCP (Yossie Silverman) writes:
>Yesterday my mac died.  The Harddisk was unreadable by SCSI Setup.  MacZap
>recovered the files but it took a while.  The last thing I did was play 
>Continuum.  I am convinced that Continuum overwrote the disk cache and thus
>mangled my Harddisk.  I find Continuum to be a very fine game but I think

	I find this surprising.  I downloaded the game and played with it 
for hours, literally.  I played under unifinder with 128K of disk cache and
system 5.0 with lots of inits.  It has not done any damage that I know about.

	I did follow certain rules.  I was using System 5.0, as 6.0 is buggy
and 5.0 has been rock solid.  I did not use Easy Access, because of postings
about that problem.  I did not use multifinder, as the game probably rights
directly to vidio and takes over the entire screen.  Anything that takes over
the screen like that usually will not work under multifinder.

	Of course It might have something to do with the fact that I have 2.5
meg of memory for the game.  I am not disputing your claim, I was just saying
that My SE was not showing the same signs as your computer.

Bruce Hoof

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