Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!purdue!ames!amdahl!dwl10 From: dwl10@uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: SimCity 1.0 Message-ID: <19GH02Nl49X.01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> Date: 10 Aug 89 15:53:11 GMT References: <[24dbef27:960]un.amiga@tronsbox.UUCP> <3037@bucsb.UUCP> <7602@cbmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: dwl10@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Houston TX Lines: 32 In article <7602@cbmvax.UUCP> jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes: >In article <3037@bucsb.UUCP> bear@bucsb.bu.edu (Blair M. Burtan) writes: >>In article <[24dbef27:960]un.amiga@tronsbox.UUCP> tron1@tronsbox.UUCP (K.J.Jamieson) writes: >>>Does anyone have a way to install SimCity on a hard drive that WORK??? >>>If I use the script they gave me on the disk ... but it doesnt work and the >>>manual is no help. >> >>Good question, needs a good answer. I tried it too and it barfs on me. >>I can save my cities on the hard disk, but not the program itself. >>RRRRRRing hello I'm having trouble with SIMCITY... > > Probably a lack of contiguous chip ram. It seem to want a LOT of it. >I removed my addbuffers df0: 40 (and df1 40) from my startup and it works >from harddisk. BTW, don't save a game in pause mode: you can't reload it. > I did some expirementing last night.... SimCity 1.0 loads fine from my hard disk. I never did have the "Chip Ram Shortage" problem that everyone else seemed to have. I finally figured out why....In my usual startup-sequence, I don't do a LOADWB. The only time I use WB is when I have to. Well, last night, I DID load WB, and SimCity no longer worked from my harddisk! I havn't tried SimCity 1.1 yet, since the disk they sent me was bad, and I am waiting on a new one. -- "What is another word | Dave Lowrey | [The opinions expressed MAY be for 'Thesaurus'?" | Amdahl Corp. | those of the author and are not | Houston, Texas | necessarily those of his Steven Wright | amdahl!dwl10 | employer] (`nuff said!)