eric@pyramid.pyramid.com (Eric Bergan) (03/22/90)
Has anyone successfully installed "It Came From the Desert" on a hard disk? I've tried following the instructions that came with the game, but when I try and start it up, it ends up rebooting the machine, and since they have the disk 1 in df0:, it does start up, but runs strictly from floppies. Am I missing something here? The game looks nice, but there are enough disk accesses to make me not want to play it from floppies. Thanks. -- eric ...!pyramid!eric
veenu@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (veenu.r.rashid) (03/23/90)
In article <106341@pyramid.pyramid.com> eric@pyramid.pyramid.com (Eric Bergan) writes: > > Has anyone successfully installed "It Came From the Desert" on a >hard disk? I've tried following the instructions that came with the game, >but when I try and start it up, it ends up rebooting the machine, and since >they have the disk 1 in df0:, it does start up, but runs strictly from >floppies. Am I missing something here? The game looks nice, but there >are enough disk accesses to make me not want to play it from floppies. <space for the line-eater..> Ok. The problem with the program is that all the references to df0: are hardcoded within the code. There are 2 files with references to df0: (I don't know which ones offhand). However, a good sector editor (one of 'em's 'hdesert') like Filemaster or NewZap can be used to change all occurrences of df0: to des: (or whatever else you want to use). Then you can write a simple shell script to run the program: assign des: dh0:Games/Desert cd des: hdesert Ciao, ruze