Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 23:03:33 10/09/99
I installed it on a freinds Pentium 133 with 64 meg ram, 4 meg video card the same as on my two computers and this time it said that direct X did not need upgrading. And installed fine. Even though his system did not have the other programs that stuffed up on my system. The opening book editor and and database did not crash like on mine. The few apparent bugs were still there in the program play, but that is known. His System apart from having DirectX 7 had pretty old drivers. So maybe the brains at mindscape tested and programmed this game on machines that did not have the latest drivers, which it may be incompatable with. Just like some drivers that were beta versions that came with MSIE 5 and CM6K would not accept the latest beta driver that was loaded with MSIE 5 and CM6K used. From my four instillations (PII450, AMD266) my systems, (P133, AMD-K2 300) Freinds System. - PII 450, stuffed just about everything up, including other programs - AMD 266 MMX , Porgram still crashes, and stuffed up other programs, but not as severe are the PII 450. - P133, installed fine, plays fine, apart from being slow, but this is also below the recommended Processor. - AMD-K2 300, Installs fine, still loads DX 6.1 over DX7 without asking, program plays fine, Still crashes sometimes, and still stuffs up some other programs, mainly Lotus Organiser, Quicken accounts, but games seem to be okay. So in summary, I have never seen, nor used a program, that stuffed up on 3 out of 4 Computer Systems, not even when Win95 came on the market and people upgraded to that. My conclusion, Mindscape need to go back to the drawing board and fix whatever the hell they missed to make this occur. This is just unacceptable.
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