Conference hydra::amiga_v1

    Norse has been unavailable for the past several days.  Anybody else
    have a copy that's available?
    
    wayne
    

    Seem to have lost the cluster alias (NORSE) try PILAGE
    
    I'll fix this ASAP
    
    Martin

It's at WJG::AMIGA:SIMCITY.ZOO  (in general on WJG, look in WJG::AMNEW:
for new stuff that shows up. I stuff new things there till I download
them myself)


BTW- I checked this out Friday Night.  Excellent demo of an Excellent Game!

My roomate saw it saturday morning and picked it up that afternoon. He
started playing it that night. I saw him early Sunday morning and said:
"Jeff, your up early", to which he replied: "I never went to sleep!".

I was afflicted with the same addiction Sunday night. If you like the demo, buy
the game! 

John

    
    From all what I hear here and on UseNET, SimCity seems like a real
    beauty.
    However, the SimCity demo I grapped from NORSE:: (PILAGE::) doesn't
    work on my PAL B2000 w/ A2620, Obese Agnus, KS-1.3, A2090, A2052.
    The demo freezes the system very fast and efficient, I only once
    got an 02 type (bus error) guru from it.
    This happens either from hard disk or if I boot the generated disk...
    
    What really nags me is the fact that the ReadMe files states that
    it should work fine on a A2500.
    Oh well, another one down the drain...
    
    <CB> 
    
     

    Re: -1
    
    I just booted the demo on my A500 w/A501 here in the office and
    it also gives me a "Brainware error - Trash held" requester and
    an instant deep-freeze.
    Since this eliminates nearly all the factors that usually kill
    braindead programs on my B2000 at home, it boils down to PAL.
    I'm soooooooo fed up with this american ignorance!!!
    Or did they put it in intentionaly to prevent the spreading of their
    demo by those eager European pirates? 1/2 :-)
    
    So PAL users beware...
    
    If some of you U.S. folks are in contact with the company, you better
    tell them to fix this quick, before they get flammed crisp.
    
    Steaming,
    
    	<CB>

    Re -.1
     My problem is exactly inverse to yours, I have a multisync monitor,
    but no flicker fixer (NEC multisync II).  When I load up a PAL game
    or demo, the screen "rolls" like a TV with the vertical sync control
    turned either way, I get this big black bar that moves across the
    screen from top to bottom.  I don't think there is any other fix
    than stop playing games or getting a flicker fixer.
    
    Jean
    

Re: .0
>    The game lets you take the role of Mayor of a large city.  You get to
>    allocate funds for development, police, fire etc.  All the elements of
>    real urban planning.

	Just how much control is available?  Can you, for example, make a
fire tax voluntary, and not put out fires in buildings that haven't paid it?

>    If you are a wise and compassionate ruler, your
>    city will thrive.  If you are a beligerent dictator, decay will set in. 

	Does the game impose arbitrary "goodness" to a particular set of
results?  That is, does it say, at some point, the equivalent of "Your city
is in good shape, you've won."  Or will it let you just watch results.

	Also, do you have a free hand, or are there external constraints (the
equivalent of state and federal laws).

Mark

    
    There is now an official NOTES conference dedicated to SimCity.  Add
    MECCA::SIMCITY to your personal notebook (sorry, I don't know how to
    add the 'KP7' to my note).
    
    This conference is shared by Mac, IBM and Amiga SimCity enthusiasts. 
    Remember, be nice to all those poor unenlightened souls who bought
    defective Brand X computers.  Since SimCity can save games to a common
    format, there should be some interesting cross pollination.
    
    Ed (Still haven't bought the game since Populous consumes all my waking
    hours).