Alley 19 Bowling FAQ's

How can I bowl against others over a network?

See our Alley 19 Networking page.

I get Type 1 or 2 errors with Alley 19 Bowling. What can I do?

Turn off file sharing and try again. On system 7, go to the Sharing Setup control panel. On System 8, go to the File Sharing control panel. Also, you can do a "Full Install" instead of the Easy Install.

When I get to the bowling alley, I can't move my players with the mouse. Nothing happens. Sometimes one player will sit in another player's lap!

Turn off file sharing on your computer. On System 7, go to the Sharing Setup control panel. On System 8, go to the File Sharing control panel. This problem occurs most often when you've done an Easy Install (partial install of Alley 19). It is caused when the game goes to access more files on the CD-ROM during game play. You may be able to play with File Sharing left on if you do a Full Install from the Alley 19 Bowling Installer.

I can't get Alley 19 to launch, or the sound is not working with Alley 19 or my other games.

We have found that some systems are having problems with Apple's newest Sound Manager version 3.2.1 which is automatically installed with Alley 19. Drag the file "Sound Manager" out of your Extension folder which is inside your System folder. Restart your system and the problem should go away. System 7.5 and newer operating systems can work without this sound manager.

Alley 19 worked fine yesterday, but today I get an Application file is damaged ... error message. What happened?

Several things could have happened.

First and most serious is the possibility of a virus infection. Disinfect your hard drive using a good virus checking program. If you were infected, re-install Alley 19 after you have cleaned your hard drive.

A second, more likely possibility is that some files on your hard drive have become corrupted through normal wear and tear. Run Apple's Disk First Aid, or use a hard disk checker such as Norton Utilities, to detect any problems and keep them from getting worse. After checking the hard drive, delete and reinstall the game.

Another possibility is if you changed or updated your computer hardware from the last time you played. If this is the case, re-install from the master disk.

Alley 19 works fine but sometimes it crashes or locks up after I have bowled a few frames or when the "turkeys" come out.

This is normally caused by a low memory situation. Select the Alley 19 application icon and do a Get Info from the File menu of the finder. Change the minimum memory size to 6000 and the preferred memory size to 10,000. Try these values out. Now try launching and playing again. You can also experiment with other sizes based on the amount of memory you have in your system. If you have an 8 MB system, you will probably want to use RAM Doubler or turn on virtual memory. You must restart after turning on virtual memory.

If you have enough hard disk space (approx. 30 MB), you may want to do a full install instead of the easy install. This has cleared up problems on some systems. You do not need to throw away anything before doing a full install on top of a previous easy install. Your folder will be automatically updated.

I don't have much memory on my machine, how can I play with four bowlers?

You can save a lot of memory by choosing pairs of the same player type or even have all four bowlers be the same. You can also save memory by having all players choose the same ball color.

Will Alley 19 run on my old 030 processor Mac?

Even though we only support the 040 and Power Macintosh processors, Alley 19 will run on machines like the LCIII and the IICi which use the 030 processor. The loading times for the bowlers will be slow, but the overall game play will be OK.

I just don't have enough free memory to play Alley 19.

Here are several solutions to increase your free memory:

Make sure you have quit all other open applications before launching Alley 19. Pull down the menu icon in the top right corner of your screen to see if you have any other applications running. If so, Quit them.

Don't load unnecessary extensions. Extensions Manager comes with System 7.5. Turn off any unnecessary extensions and reboot. The only extension that Alley 19 requires is "Apple CD-ROM" (or other CD-ROM driver, if you own a non-Apple CD-ROM drive) and Sound Manager.

We suggest this minimum list of Extensions for Systems 7.5 through 7.5.5: Apple CD-ROM, Foreign File Access, Sound Manager, and your Apple control panels.

Additionally, we recommend that any graphics acceleration extensions you may have be kept active. For example the "7200 Graphics Acceleration" extension on the PowerMac 7200 series.

The above lists are for the Apple Extensions Manager, if you are using a different Extension Manager (Conflict Catcher, Now Startup) then the list may be slightly different.

Turn down your disk cache (in the Memory control panel). 64K is adequate for most modern Macintoshes, except in specific rare cases.

If you have done the above and there is still not enough free memory, use RAM Doubler or go to the "Memory" control panel, and turn on Virtual Memory. When you turn Virtual Memory on, it will default to twice your built-in memory, or the Available on Disk, whichever is lower. For optimal performance, please lower this to 2 megabytes above your built-in memory.

Example: On a PowerMac with 8 MB of RAM, turning on Virtual Memory will automatically set Virtual Memory to "After Restart 16 MB". You would then lower this number to read 10 MB, close the Memory Control Panel, and restart your Mac.

I don't get any music during the game.

The 50s background music is stored as audio files on the Alley 19 CD. First, make certain your Sound control panel, Sound In [Options], must be set to Internal CD and Playthrough. You must have the Alley 19 CD in an internal drive to get the music, as external CD-ROM drives can only transfer data, not music, unless they are hooked up with special cables. If you do have an external CD-ROM drive, please check to see if it has any Audio Out jacks. If it does, you may be able to hook the Audio Out of your CD-ROM drive to the Audio In of your Mac. You may also wish to connect external speakers directly to your CD-ROM drive and the Audio Out jacks.

My Mac freezes occasionally when playing Alley 19.

Make sure you don't have other applications running that use up needed memory. If you only have an 8 MB system, use RAM Doubler or turn on virtual memory to give your computer more memory. You should be using v1.1.2 or newer of Alley 19. If you have Soumd Manager 3.2.1 in your extension folder, then move it out and re-start your system. Check to make sure that you don't have Calculate Folder Sizes turned on in the Views control panel. This causes the Finder to scan your hard disk whenever it thinks the computer is idle. Go to the Views control panel, and uncheck the Calculate Folder Sizes checkbox while playing Alley 19.

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