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
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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.

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