laba-3en@web-1c.berkeley.edu (Raja S Kushalnagar) (02/01/90)
I bought one of those action game packs (From W Germany, BTW), and even though one of the games was 8-bitishly awful, the rest were not too bad. But to start those games is awkward. Rebooting with the C-A-A sequence will not make most of them start. I have to turn off the Amiga and then turn it on again, for the games to start. What's the diff between a cold reboot and a warm reboot anyway? And then one game refuses to boot at all on my amiga, though interestingly enough, it is not copy-protected and when I tried to tun it from the cli, it showed exactly the same behaviour as with the reboot. When I took it to my dealer, he did not find any problem with booting it up on a 500. The 2000's and 2500/30's there were being hogged and we could not test it on those computers, but all the same it is rather curious, how can a game that can run on a 500 NOT run on my stock 2000HD? And oh, one more thing, how can I copy BattleChess onto my harddrive? I tried the apparently obvious solution of assigning dh0: to fh1:, but it failed miserably. Any pointers? -> not a NULL pointer though :). FYI, BattleChess is not copy protected and has a program (and icon) which will let you copy it to dh0:. I also tried direct copying, but it failed too. Oh well. Does anyone have source code for a more efficient compressing than the Lempel Ziv one? I am writing a package which is akin to the man pages on Unix, and the whole program is almost a megabyte, mostly man pages of course. I've tentatively written come compressing code, which is just plain old Huffman encoding. I know it ain't efficient, but I couldn't get access to any better code, especially the Lempel Ziv code - and I am at Berkeley! Oh well. But sometime back I came accross a reference that said that zoo, lharc etc used more efficient encoding than Lempel Ziv. Hmm? Raja. P.S. Seeing the New York Knicks play brings a smile to my lips, for in Brit English, "knicks" are equivalent to "panties". :) raja@{soda,ocf,athena}.berkeley.edu | root@athena.berkeley.edu | laba-3en@web Programmer Analyst I, S & P dept, UC Berkeley. Disclaimer: I am a poor foreign undergrad sophomore who just turned eighteen half a year ago; if anything serious happens, I plead juvenile delinquency!
bleys@tronsbox.UUCP (Bill Cavanaugh) (02/04/90)
>And oh, one more thing, how can I copy BattleChess onto my harddrive? >I tried the apparently obvious solution of assigning dh0: to fh1:, but it >failed miserably. Any pointers? -> not a NULL pointer though :). >FYI, BattleChess is not copy protected and has a program (and icon) which >will let you copy it to dh0:. I also tried direct copying, but it failed >too. Oh well. Using an editor that will let you edit binary files, do a search/replace changing all occurences of "DH0" to "FH1". Don't make the search case sensitive, BTW. Recently, a bug in NewZap was reported (here on usenet, as a matter of fact) that NewZap fails on a search if the string crosses sector boundaries, so I wouldn't reccomend that program. I use TxEd+, which works splendidly! (thanks, Charlie!) uunet!tronsbox!bleys BIX: bcavanaugh "The perversity of the universe tends to a maximum" Finagle's First Law All of the opinions expressed above are mine. If you want to use them, it's gonna cost ya!
dfrancis@dsoft.UUCP (Dennis Heffernan) (02/04/90)
RE Battle Chess on a hard drive I remember hearing that a Bug in B.C. caused it to eat hard drives if you ran it from one. Don't mean to be alarmist, but you might want to check and see if that's been fixed yet. You might also want to call Interplay and ask if and how the game can be run from a hard drive. -- --dfh ...uunet!tronsbox!dsoft!dfrancis "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein
maniac@lil-ed.cs.unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger) (02/06/90)
Speaking of game incompatibilities, does Sim City work with a 68010? If not, does DeciGel fix it? Eric Schwertfeger, maniac@jimi.CS.UNLV.EDU
hamilton@intersil.uucp (Fred Hamilton) (02/06/90)
In article <1489@jimi.cs.unlv.edu>, maniac@lil-ed.cs.unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger) writes: > Speaking of game incompatibilities, does Sim City work with a > 68010? If not, does DeciGel fix it? Sim City runs great in my 68020 Amiga. I run decigel in my startup- sequence, so I'm not sure if Sim City needs it or not. -- Fred Hamilton Any views, comments, or ideas expressed here Harris Semiconductor are entirely my own. Even good ones. Santa Clara, CA
kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) (02/06/90)
In article <76.25cdfe74@intersil.uucp> hamilton@intersil.uucp (Fred Hamilton) writes: > >Sim City runs great in my 68020 Amiga. I run decigel in my startup- >sequence, so I'm not sure if Sim City needs it or not. Doesn't need DeciGel. Runs even with SetCpu, though I haven't tried it with my recently remapped interrupt vectors yet. ==================================================================== Kent Polk - Southwest Research Institute - kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu Motto : "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing" ====================================================================
gheff@hubcap.clemson.edu (Gary R Heffelfinger) (02/08/90)
From article <1489@jimi.cs.unlv.edu>, by maniac@lil-ed.cs.unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger): > > Speaking of game incompatibilities, does Sim City work with a > 68010? If not, > does DeciGel fix it? Dunno, but it if it doesn't, I'm sure that Maxis (the developer) would be interested in hearing about it. They've been pretty responsive to users problems so far, they'd probably fix it. -Gary -- Gary R Heffelfinger ------ gheff@hubcap.clemson.edu Clemson University - Info. Systems Development Eagles soar, but a weasel will never get sucked into a jet engine.
billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour) (02/10/90)
In article <1990Feb1.060616.16007@agate.berkeley.edu: laba-3en@web-1c (Raja S Kushalnagar) writes:
:And oh, one more thing, how can I copy BattleChess onto my harddrive?
:I tried the apparently obvious solution of assigning dh0: to fh1:, but it
:failed miserably. Any pointers? -: not a NULL pointer though :).
:FYI, BattleChess is not copy protected and has a program (and icon) which
:will let you copy it to dh0:. I also tried direct copying, but it failed
:too. Oh well.
I just made a backup of the disk then NewZapped the utility that
tranfers the progrC'm to the hard drive. Change all occurances of DH0: to
FH1: or whatever you want. It's as simple as that... :-)
: Raja.
:
:P.S. Seeing the New York Knicks play brings a smile to my lips, for in Brit
:English, "knicks" are equivalent to "panties". :)
:
:raja@{soda,ocf,athena}.berkeley.edu | root@athena.berkeley.edu | laba-3en@web
: Programmer Analyst I, S & P dept, UC Berkeley.
:Disclaimer: I am a poor foreign undergrad sophomore who just turned eighteen
:half a year ago; if anything serious happens, I plead juvenile delinquency!
--
-Bill Seymour ...tektronix!reed!percival!agora!billsey
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danb20@pro-graphics.cts.com (Dan Bachmann) (02/15/90)
In-Reply-To: message from bleys@tronsbox.UUCP Why not simply mount your HD0: then loadwb and click on BattleChess-DH0? It worked for me and I don't even use SCSI hard drives. and for a text editor, I think the public domain DME will edit binary. This little program by Matt Dillon is supposed to be one of the best, even compared to some comercial editors. ProLine: danb20@pro-graphics UUCP: ...crash!pro-graphics!danb20 ARPA/DDN: pro-graphics!danb20@nosc.mil Internet: danb20@pro-graphics.cts.com