Machiavelli the Prince + Windows 95

[Henrik Kiertzner]

Ladies/Gentlemen:

Does anyone have a sure-fire way to stop MtP - a pretty good game WHEN
IT'S WORKING:

a. slowing down to seriously slow

b. crashing out after sweeping mouse moves

c. Up and dying and/or locking up

Running Windows 95 release version [?build 950], 486-DX4-100, 12 Mb RAM,
Logitech mouse {with, I think, v 6.20 driver}, 604Kb free + 11 Mb odd XMS
available in DOS box, SB16 and Cirrus video. No other MSDOS application
is giving me any grief at all!

Microprose were distinctly unhelpful - in fact, couldn't give a toss on
the phone - "we don't say that it'll work with Windows 95, so be grateful
that it almost does". Yeah, thanks a lot, matey girl, great corporate
image there.....

Don't bother phoning, E-mailing or accessing the MPS BBS, they've got
your money, why should they even bother being polite when they tell you
they can't help you?

Answers by E-mail, please, let's save Usenet bandwidth, eh?

Henrik Kiertzner - Cirencester, UK
"Manui Dat Cognitio Vires"

[Spectrum HoloByte-MicroProse On-Line Services]

>Ladies/Gentlemen:

Henrik,

I see two possible problems here: 1. You are still using a beta-build of
Win95, which, even though relatively clean, still has problems with running
DOS games.

2. Running in a DOS Window. With Machiavelli, you need to reboot into
MS_DOS mode to play the game.

Regards,
Tim
Spectrum HoloByte-MicroProse On-Line Services
http://www.holobyte.com
http://www.microprose.com
sup...@microprose.com

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Spectrum HoloByte-MicroProse On-Line Services (sup...@microprose.com) wrote:
: hkier...@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Henrik Kiertzner") wrote:

: Henrik,

: I see two possible problems here: 1. You are still using a beta-build of
: Win95, which, even though relatively clean, still has problems with running
: DOS games.

: 2. Running in a DOS Window. With Machiavelli, you need to reboot into
: MS_DOS mode to play the game.

3.Have you patched the game to V 1.1?

4.Hey Tim checked with Hercules on that video problem with Machiavelli
and they said tech support has no recollection of Microprose contacting
them about it as you told me.What gives?

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[Spectrum HoloByte-MicroProse On-Line Services]

sl...@unix.infoserve.net (Slang) wrote:

>: Henrik,

Hi,

Don't know, because we contacted both Hercules and Matrox about problems
with their cards-- although we talked with their test departments, not
customer service.