Defender of the Crown

#1 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 - 04:00 68kMLA

I am trying to play the game Defender of the Crown on my Macintosh SE. I got a copy from Macintosh Garden:

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The game starts fine and you can do some things however it always crashes if you try to buy soldiers. Does anyone know what the issue is or have a working copy,

Thanks

#2 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 - 05:58 68kMLA

Try it under System 6, or even System 5

#3 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 - 06:11 68kMLA

Yes I should have mention I am running System 6. I even downloaded another copy and it had the same issue. Maybe you are right it needs an earlier version. I was just wondering if anyone else had success playing this game.

#4 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 - 10:31 68kMLA

Quite a few ancient B&W games need System 5 - I can't recall many off the top of my head, but Dark Castle II was one, and some flight sims.

#5 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 - 22:45 68kMLA

No linking to Macintosh Garden. No Warez, period.

#6 Thu, 15 Jan 2015 - 04:09 68kMLA

Paralel said:
No linking to Macintosh Garden. No Warez, period.

Oh yes, what I meant was I used diskette from 1987 I bought when I was 8 and tried to install it on my Macintosh SE running System 6. Damn auto-correct replaced that with the link

#7 Thu, 15 Jan 2015 - 04:17 68kMLA

Much better.

#8 Thu, 15 Jan 2015 - 19:09 68kMLA

Byrd said:
Quite a few ancient B&W games need System 5 - I can't recall many off the top of my head, but Dark Castle II was one, and some flight sims.

Do any games require systems older than System 5, or that's as far back as one generally needs to go for most older B&W games?

I'm trying to create various boot disks for my Plus to run just about any kind of software, but I haven't bothered to create any older than System 5.1 because I haven't run into any software that needed it, but if there are games out there that need something older it would be good to know so I can create additional book disks in anticipation of possibly needing them some day.

#9 Thu, 15 Jan 2015 - 21:04 68kMLA

I recall Fokker Triplane needed System 4.1, and that war game with the digitized sound for 128K/512K machines also used a very early release of System software - but it was probably to minimise RAM usage to run the game in the first place. I suspect the version of Dark Castle II I have is very early, as surely that's one of the games that would run fine in System 7. But the version I have needed System 5 (it came with a boot disk) again perhaps for lower resources to run it on a 1MB Plus.

#10 Fri, 16 Jan 2015 - 02:26 68kMLA

I was under the impression that System 6 was basically compatible with everything made before it but I guess there are exceptions. I will try downloading system 5 later when I have some time.

#11 Fri, 16 Jan 2015 - 21:37 68kMLA

Ok, sounds like System 5 is the lowest one would need to go for most practical purposes. That's good. I don't find the versions before 5.0/5.1 to be very useable.