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From: thantos@runic.mind.org (Alexander Williams)
Subject: Re: Nice commercial alife. Was: Tierra
Organization: Runic Writings UUCP Link: Convoco Hasturam
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Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 13:11:35 GMT
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In an arcane scroll, Alexander Williams quotes the holy scripturist
J.J. Merelo Guervos, replying to the mystic words as written, saying:

>In article <3pfuh2$mvl@crl.crl.com>, azi@crl.com (Walter Raisanen) writes:
>> J.J. Merelo Guervos (jmerelo@kal-el.ugr.es) wrote:
>> : And what about Unnatural Selection? It's much more alife-based than SimLife (you
>> : have individuals, with individual genomes and so on), and the graphics are
>> : terrific. Dos-based, too.
>> 
>> Sounds neat.  Where do I get it?
>
>From Maxis, if they have not folded already!

   Just a note: I picked up a copy day before yesterday, for $15 on
sale, but damned if I can /install/ the bugger.  Comes with 7 3.5"
floppies and the installation procedure says its wants 570k to even
put the game on the hd.  Which would seem to be bad, since even
stripped to bare metal, DOS 6.2 only leaves 560k free and the
install dies midway through.
   Maxis is still active, however, with an email address
Maxis@aol.com.  Hint: Don't try to get tech support there, even with
a full, eloquent description of the problem...
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