pre-ringworld construct save

[Suicide Junkie]

When you hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and see "[not responding]" after the name of a program, all that means is that the program hasn't refreshed for X ms.

I once had that come up on me when I wrote a really big for-loop. It had to create something like 1000 files, so it took a while, and got the not-responding thing.

It was still doing stuff, and finished after 30 seconds, but was considered "not-responding" after the first 5 seconds or so.

Anyways, what you probably have is a horribly massive battle going on, or perhaps a slower-than-average machine running SE4. If you leave it, it will probably finish.

(I was just playing on a 486-66, with 16M ram, and it took 10 minutes to do an 8 AI turn. Most of the time, SE4 would be "not responding", except right after it updates the "Processing Player X")