ja26612@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (02/07/90)
/* Written 8:11 pm Feb 5, 1990 by cfg@grad10.cs.duke.edu in uxa.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.amiga */ /* ---------- "Supra 2400zi and Populous modem mod" ---------- */ Finally found another local Populous fiend willing to go head to head with me over the modem. Initiated calls, passed worldmaps to be used, fired up Populous and... zippo... couldn't get connected. I am sure that the culprit is my Supra 2400zi modem, and its infamous modem0.device replacement for serial.device. The question is, does this mean I will never be able to take advantage of modem games like Populous, Falcon, F-16 Combat Pilot, etc, etc, etc? I sure hope not. I tried using the ModemModify program on the populous and populous.pgm files listed in the dir from the game disk but it claimed that serial.device was nowhere to be found in those files. I even tried calling Electronic Arts (distributer for Populous) but they blamed it on "programmers from the UK". (Their words. Personally, I do not think the guy had a clue about the amiga, as he kept talking to me about COMM1 and COMM2 [obvious IBM tipoffs]). I tried calling Supra, but got no answer. Anyone have any other bright ideas, or better yet a known solution to this dilemma? Any help would be greatly appreciated. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- * I won't grow up, not a penny will I pinch | Department of Computer Science, * I will never grow a moustache, or a | Duke University, * fraction of an inch. | Durham, NC 27706 * Cause growing up is awfuller than all the | * awful things that ever were. | ARPA: cfg@cs.duke.edu * I won't grow up, never grow up..... | CSNET: cfg@duke * Not ME! (P. Pan & cfg) | UUCP: decvax!duke!cfg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- /* End of text from uxa.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.amiga */
papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) (02/08/90)
In article <111400095@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> ja26612@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: | I am sure that the culprit is my Supra 2400zi modem, and its |infamous modem0.device replacement for serial.device. Wrong culprit. |The question is, |does this mean I will never be able to take advantage of modem games |like Populous, Falcon, F-16 Combat Pilot, etc, etc, etc? If they use the CIA ports directly instead of the serial.device (as most game do) you are out of luck. | I sure hope not. I tried using the ModemModify program on the |populous and populous.pgm files listed in the dir from the game disk |but it claimed that serial.device was nowhere to be found in those |files. That's a sign that the program does not use the serial.device and instead addresses directly the hardware serial port registers. One easy way is to look for the serial.device string with either UNIX-like "strings" program, or with TYPE filename OPT h. If you can't find the string, you can't use the program with multi-serial devices. |I even tried calling Electronic Arts (distributer for Populous) |but they blamed it on "programmers from the UK". (Their words. What they meant is that the programmers directly addressed the internal chips (likely in assembler). Lots of european games have been built without respecting "portability" rules (as one can very see in the Abacus book series, full of non-no's code). | I tried calling Supra, but got no answer. Anyone have any other |bright ideas, or better yet a known solution to this dilemma? Any help |would be greatly appreciated. Feel happy to be able to use the game on the built-in serial port and forget about everything else :-) -- Marco -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "Xerox sues somebody for copying?" -- David Letterman -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=