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Received: from auriga.rose.brandeis.edu (auriga.rose.brandeis.edu [129.64.32.34]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA15246 for <executor@nacm.com>; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 20:09:54 -0700 Received: by auriga.rose.brandeis.edu (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA14635; Thu, 28 Sep 95 23:10:09 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 23:10:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeff Gilmour <gilmour@auriga.rose.brandeis.edu> To: executor@nacm.com Subject: A Train In-Reply-To: <199509290147.SAA14166@nacm.com> Message-Id: <Pine.ULT.3.91.950928225751.14608A-100000@auriga.rose.brandeis.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk Greetings, I wanted to let you all know that a great game from Maxis works fairly well under Executor. 'A Train' is a simulation similar to SimCity but you're in control of setting up trains. It runs at a nice clip, with smooth animation. There are a couple of quirks though. For some reason you can't save games onto a .hfv drive. It saves with no apparent error, but when you try to reload, it says it can't load. It loads fine from the Linux partition though. That's the first trouble I've had with the .hfv drive, i.e. text files from Microsoft Word save there just fine. Another quirk is that under Linux the speed control doesn't work very well, slows it down too much, but it works well under DOS. Anyway, this game is only $15 from Maxis, well worth the money. Just do a Lycos search for Maxis under WWW and you'll find it. -Jeff ... This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. Had this been an actual emergency we would have fled in terror, and you would not have been informed ...