DYORR - Update

[magnusfalkirk <dean.phares@gmail.com>]

Just got Design Your Own RailRoad (DYORR) for the Apple II via Fedex
yesterday and have been messing with it a little tonight. I've got the
Mac version and have been really disappointed with how slow the trains
run on my G4 Mac Mini, the trains barely creep along, even with the
speed set all the way up.

So I'm happy to report that on my IIc DYORR runs great, the trains
move along like I'd expect them to! I got both a 5.25 "flippy" disk
and a 3.5 disk. According to the documentation the 5.25 disk is copy
protected but the 3.5 isn't. What really amazes me is that with the
5.25 the front side is the train sim program and the back is the CAD
program for laying out the tracks. There's only one layout that comes
with the 5.25 disk but I'd imagine, and I'll check this out over the
weekend on my GS, that with the 3.5 there should be more layouts there
do to the amount of room on the 3.5 disk.

As an interesting aside just a few days before I got DYORR a friend e-
mailed me disk images of another Abracadata train sim program for the
Apple II that pre-dates DYORR, Run Your Own Train (RYOT). I turned the
images back into real disks and have been messing with it. It's a fun
program that strikes me as a cross between DYORR and Train Engineer,
since you can run the trains around your layout either from a top down
view, like DYORR, or from the Engineer view, just like Train Engineer.
Another interesting thing is the ability to import DYORR  layouts into
RYOT or import RYOT layouts into DYORR.

Dean