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From: kyt@cs.columbia.edu (Kok-Yong Tan)
Subject: Solarian 1.03 and Starflight crash now
Message-ID: <KYT.91Apr1024929@spruce.cs.columbia.edu>
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Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.games
Date: 1 Apr 91 02:49:29

Has anyone had this problem that I'm having now:  prior to installing a
RasterOps 24L card and the RasterOps Accelerator, Solarian 1.03 and Starflight
used to work.  Now, even though I shut off all my INITs with INITPicker and
also tried switching off the Accelerator via software and by preventing the
INIT from loading, both games cause my Mac IIx to crash or hang respectively
when in 256 color mode.

When I try starting Solarian in 256 color mode without any INITs or with INITs,
I can go right up to the first 2 seconds of the first game screen (i.e. past
the statistics and preference screens), then I crash with the screen flickering
between all black, all white and the MacsBug  V6.2b1 screen.  (Yes, I've tried
removing MacsBug from my System Folder before booting to no avail.)  Solarian
will, of course, not work in 16.7 million color mode.  But it at least gives me
a clean exit and not a crash when I try to start it in 16.7 million color mode.

Starflight in 256 color mode loads and then presents me with a blank white
screen.  My cursor disappears and my Mac IIx hangs.  However, in 16.7 million
color mode, it runs, although all the screen text becomes illegible either
because the characters mutate to something else or the colors of the characters
become similar to that of the background.  

As far as I can see, the 24-bit color board and accelerator are the only major
thing I added to my system outside of Remember? 2.1.  Can anyone help me?  I
notice that my SimCity and SimEarth seem to work fine when I use 16 color mode.
Starflight also hangs in the same manner in 16 bit color and Solorian gives me
the "...can't find 640x480 screen with 256 color..." error box and doesn't
crash the system.  


Heeeeellllllp!  I need Solarian to unwind.  




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