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	Yesterday I joined the few, (the proud?), to own the SE/30, and
of course I am now one of the many with a thousand questions about it. I        expected it to be a little buggy since it is a "new" item, but I feel I am
getting more bugs than I deserve after what I paid. (Which by the way was 
$2850 for the 40SC version. College is wonderful)

I after spending a few minutes copying everything from my (sold) Jasmine 45
I decided to begin "debugging" with the most important stuff: Games.
<insert humor here>

Crystal Quest 2.2 gives me a rather unique error message beginning with
"EEEWEEYAK!" and ending with "things look cagey."  Apparently the game
thinks my computer, since it has the Color QuicDraw in ROM, has a color
monitor and thereby tries to do the game in color...  I tried fiddleing
with the control panel and launching from older system on floppy, but
to no avail. Any ideas about what to try or info about a patch?  

I borrowed my friend's copy of Falcon (the older one) but everything
flickered.. I've heard of that problem before and can only hope they fix
that before I buy it (or I won't!)

Since I live on a hard-wired AppleTalk campus, I immediately tried
NetTrek, which works (faster) BUT none of the sounds work!  Being an audio-
oriented person (to tell you the truth, one of the reasons I sold my SE and
got an SE/30 was to hear that little chord at startup instead of the beep!),
the lack of sound bothered me alot.  I have not tried SoundMaster, since
I haven't installed a 1 meg upgrade yet (I can't afford 5 and can't live with
1).  I really don't understand why the program would work, but without
the sounds.  I can't test this with other games, since the only other sound
game I have is CQ... Although come to think of it, Falcon's sounds didn't
work either...  I REALLY hope this is something that will be fixed...

World Class Leader Board (golf) worked fine, but only when I booted up with
a lower life-form (System 5.0).  It hung after a few minutes running off
6.0.3.

Infocom games work fine *whew!* (even the new graphic ones like Zork Zero).

To move on to more important things...

What is the deal with this FDHD I have? I work in the computer store at
the college, with consultants surrounding me, and it wasn't until I went to
format a disk with my new SE/30 that I learned that you have to buy a different
kind of diskette to use the 1.4 meg option.  Am I right here?  I can not 
format a double sided disk as 1.4M? This is the first the store has heard
of it since we don't even carry HD 3.5 disks.  Ugh!

I love the speed of the computer, but I noticed that using the scroll bars
seems to be an acquired skill with my new computer.  The scroll just too
damn fast.  Click once and it pages twice.  Is this the price of speed? 

Anyone out there who usesd BackDrop, an INIT that allows you to have
MacPaint files as finder backdrops, will have trouble here.  There seems to
be a problem with the screen redraw, so that things get shifted alot, and the
integrity of the picture is lost if you open and close windows of any kind.

The INIT Logout does not recognise the difference between sutting down
and restarting with the SE/30.

Now that I have ONE slot that I might actually use, I am worried about
expansion.  An external coolor monitor is in my near future, but so is an 
ethernet or other kind of card.  Are there any developers that plan on
making a card to expand your slot for more than one card, or was I locked
when I got the SE/30 over the cx? (I couldn't afford the cx, with all the
extras...at least not now.)

The posting someone (i'm sorry, i forget who) did a few days ago was extremely
helpful, but I need to know more now...

Thanks for any help or info that you all can give. I'm sure that postings
would be in order as respone to these questions, but my e-mail address
is:
Xerox@mac.dartmouth.edu

notice it's different from the return address above (although that address
will work too)

-James Osborne

"We're sorry, but that cutesy little footer you spent all day making has
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