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- From: fettig@coli-gate.coli (Thomas &)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: How do you get it to run? (was: Re: populous ii)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.161730.29279@coli.uni-sb.de>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 16:17:30 GMT
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- Robert Poole (pooler@evers.cs.rpi.edu) wrote:
- :
- : 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...
-
- This sounds like the Populous I behaviour. I was playing it once (started from WB).
- It would self-boot, but you could also put the disk in drive 0 and start it
- from WB. I don't know anymore if it allowed screen-flipping, in any case every
- mouse-click was received by the WB. I had to reboot and move Icons und windows in
- places where you usually don't click while playing populous. But RMB still made things
- slow (I think it switched menu-titles on).
- To fix this behaviour you could perhaps drag the WB-screen down.. I can't try it but
- it might work. Or close WB.. ah well.. not possible if you started PopulousII from there..
- Make the WB window small. something of this might work.
-
- : Rob Poole
- Do you think its worth buying populousII? I never saw it.
-
- thomas
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