Re: What's your favorite 2-player game?

* Deadly_Dad wrote in alt.games.mame:
GlassVial wrote:
sex with the wife


I hear that's in NOT_WORKING status, but supposed to promoted to
WORKING in Mame 0.105! ;)

-GV


I heard that it actually /does/ work, but has some bugs:

1) After you play it once, it keeps adding credits on its own, wanting
you to keep playing until your joystick is completely worn out.
2) If you play other games, it won't let you play with it at /all/ and
eventually kicks you out.

Can anyone else think of any? <GBG>

Whatever you do, DO NOT UPGRADE, you have been warned!

Last year a friend of mine upgraded GirlFriend 1.0 to Wife 1.0 and found
that it's a memory hog, leaving very little system resource for other
applications. He is only now noticing that Wife 1.0 also is spawning
Child-Processes which are further consuming valuable resources. No
mention of this particular phenomenon was included in the product
brochure or the documentation, though other users have informed him that
this is to be expected due to the nature of the application. Not only
that, Wife 1.0 installs itself such that it is always lauched at system
initialisation where it can monitor all other system activity.

He's finding that some applications such as PokerNight 10.3, BeerBash
2.5, and PubNight 7.0 are no longer able to run in the system at all,
crashing the system when selected (even though they always worked fine
before). At installation, Wife 1.0 provides no option as to the
installation of undesired Plug-Ins such as MotherInLaw 55.8 and
BrotherInLaw Beta release. Also, system performance seems to diminish
with each passing day.

Some features he'd like to see in the upcoming wife 2.0.:

* A "Don't remind me again" button
* Minimize button
* An install shield feature that allows Wife 2.0 to be
* installed with the option to uninstall at anytime without
* the loss of cache and other system resources.

I myself decided to avoid all of the headaches associated with Wife 1.0
by sticking with Girlfriend 2.0. Even here, however, I found many
problems. Apparently you cannot install Girlfriend 2.0 on top of
Girlfriend 1.0. You must uninstall Girlfriend 1.0 first. Other users say
this is a long standing bug which I should have been aware of.
Apparently the versions of Girlfriend have conficts over shared use of
the I/O port. You'd think they would have fixed such a stupid bug by
now. To make matters worse, the uninstall program for Girlfriend 1.0
doesn't work very well, leaving undesirable traces of the application in
the system.

Another thing that sucks -- all versions of Girlfriend continually popup
little annoying messages about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0.

******** BUG WARNING ********

Wife 1.0 has an undocumented bug. If you try to install Mistress 1.1
before uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney files before
doing the uninstall itself. Then Mistress 1.1 will refuse to install,
claiming insufficient resources.

******** BUG WORK-AROUNDS ********

To avoid the above bug, try installing Mistress 1.1 on a different
system and never run any file transfer applications such as Laplink 6.0.
Another solution would be to run Mistress 1.0 via a UseNet provider
under an anonymous name.

Jim's comment on above bug There are in fact two versions of this bug,
and it seems to be a matter of luck which one you get afflicted with.
The version described is the milder of the two. With the worse version,
before uninstalling itself Wife 1.0 uses the Divorce protocol to install
Lawyer 1.0 (and sometimes also Lawyer 1.1, Lawyer 1.2 and Lawyer 1.3 as
well).

Lawyer (any version) will run for an indeterminate but lengthy period
constantly consuming all resources. When it eventually ends it
automatically installs Alimony 26.5, which removes MSMoney and any other
financial application as soon as you install it. The core of Lawyer 1.0
remains as a TSR during this time, crashing the system as soon as any
attempt is made to stop Alimony 26.5 or to interfere with its operation.
This sometimes leads to fatal breakdown of the entire system.

--
David
Somewhere, just out of sight, the unicorns are gathering.
.

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