And speaking of impotence and futility...

[avevale_intelligencer]

Just a minor disappointment, but it bugged and bugs me. I bought a magazine today because it had Bryce 4 on the coverdisc. Yes, another landscape generator, hi my name is Zander and I'm an addict, but this one looks potentially better than all the others. So I checked out the system requirements before buying, because I'm not a complete idiot (several vital components and the manual missing since 1954) and it checked out. Pentium, yes, 32Mb RAM, yes, yes, yes. Cool.

Except that when I had installed it it calmly informed me that it required QuickTime 6 to work, and on applying to the indicated website I found that QT6 turns its nose up at anything less than 128Mb RAM.
So Bryce's system requirements should have told me that. "This programme will run on 32meg, but it won't run without this other one that needs 128meg."

But if it won't run without QT6, it won't run on 32meg. Simple as that. So how did they get it to do it when they were establishing the system requirements? Or did they just lie?

I may try and run it anyway before I uninstall it. Just to see. And I'm hanging on to the disc...

Comments

[djbp.livejournal.com]

zander any idea what type of memory your comp takes?

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Um, no. A further complication developed when the ongoing Have I Or Have I Not Got A CD-ROM Drive, Ooh, I'm Not Really Sure problem (something wrong with the dual fifo IDE thingies on the motherboard that no-one has been able to correct) prevented final validation of the programme. If not for that, who knows, it might have worked after all...

Grandfather's Axe is not chopping as well as it used to.