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- From: mjackson@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Mark Jackson)
- Subject: Re: How do you get it to run? (was: Re: populous ii)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.114531.4380@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 11:45:31 GMT
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- In article <r_w1n0c@rpi.edu> pooler@evers.cs.rpi.edu (Robert Poole) writes:
- >
- >I've had a devil of a time with Populous II on my Amiga 3000. I bought it
- >back when I owned a 500, then sold off my 500 and bought a 3000. I bought
- >the game in part because Bullfrog made it HD installable, and I wanted to
- >support them in their efforts. Unfortunately, on an Amiga 3000, there seems
- >to be a serious glitch in Populous II which makes it nearly unplayable. It
- >seems that, while Populous II multitasks correctly (this is a GOOD thing), it
- >does not use a standard intuition screen (which is BAD). And when you get
- >hot and heavy into the middle of a game, often the program will start flipping
- >two completely dissimilar screens back and forth rapidly. Near as I can
- >figure, mouse clicks on the Populous II screen are "ghosted" through to the
- >Workbench screen, which can launch other programs, open windows, create
- >general havoc, etc.
- >
- >Does anyone have a patch to make Pop II work on a 3000, or is it hopeless?
- >It's a shame that such a good game fails on an '030 machine...
- >
- >Rob Poole
- >pooler@rpi.edu
- >pooler@cs.rpi.edu
-
- Well, I had exactly the same problem on my A500 when I stuck in my '020
- accelerator. Strange, I though ... Even stranger was that if I then went
- back into 68000 mode, it still did the same !!
-
- I eventually tracked the problem down to me having installed DMouse at the
- same time. I got rid of that, and the problem vanished :-) I guess it was
- because DMouse had a high priority input handler which clashed with Pop II.
-
- So, I suggest you try running the game with nothing else in the background
- and then gradually adding the things from your startup-sequence. Hopefully
- you will discover the offending proggy ...
-
- Good luck
-
- Mark
-