shatara@memit.dec.com (Chris: 223-8753, TECHNOLOGY OFFICE, MLO1-4/T35) (07/01/89)
> Yesterday I purchased a copy of Risk (Electronic Arts). It said it was for > //e,//c, & //gs, so I tried it on my //gs. It included one 5.25 disk which > when I tried to boot it came back with an I/O error. I then tried it in a > //e, which booted fine. It came up in ProDos 1.4 which leads me to believe > it has some fancy copy protected modified ProDos. This really erks me. I > can't put it on a hard disk. I can't even run it on a //gs, (which it claims > I can), just because some turkey company is scared I'll give it away. > > I'm not an advocate of pirating. I want to pay for my s/w so they can > afford to keep making more s/w. But I want the s/w to work, too!!! (plus > it would be nice if it didn't tie my hands and prevent me from using the s/w.) > > Phil We had a similar problem wiht several of my son's 5.25" games. When we tried to boot them on the //gs they bombed. Usually the screen went screwey. What we found out was that many of the game (Flight sim, Pegasus, Carmen, ..) require that the display be set to 40 columns in the control panel. You might try that. I somehow can put up with this on older games but on newer one!? Good luck Chris Shatara
prl3546@tahoma.UUCP (Philip R. Lindberg) (07/11/89)
From article <8907011212.AA11168@decwrl.dec.com>, by shatara@memit.dec.com (Chris: 223-8753, TECHNOLOGY OFFICE, MLO1-4/T35): > > > Yesterday I purchased a copy of Risk (Electronic Arts). It said it was > > afford to keep making more s/w. But I want the s/w to work, too!!! (plus > > > > it would be nice if it didn't tie my hands and prevent me from using the s/w.) > > require that the display be set to 40 columns in the control panel. > You might try that. > I default my control panel to 40 columns. Everything I use that needs 80 sets it itself. Thanks anyway. Phil