JMMEYERS@MTUS5.BITNET (John Meyers) (12/18/89)
Has anyone had any problems with the VAUX-KILLERDEMO found on
Fish's 265 and 266 from the MRCNEXT archive? After unZOOing everything
and copying a few librarys to the main disk (I boot off of it,) I got
it running. I run into a problem after it loads "explosion1.set" off the
first disk. After that file is loaded, the MoviePlayer window says
"couldn't insert movie" and then a requester pops up with the message
"Couldn't load movie." I took a look at the movie file with the hunch that
the file after "explosion1.set" was in a wrong directory on the disk, but
but this didn't seem to be the case. Is it that I'm out of memory? (I have
1 Meg, and have seen no messages about memory requirements.)
Thanks, and Merry Christmas!
John
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I also had trouble running the VAUX-Killer demo... that is until created a directory called backgrounds and moved all *.bkgd , *.pic , and *.oscn files into it. Then it worked like a charm. Hope this helps. ------- ------- +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Chuck Banthos CCNY School of Engineering J89CC @ CUNYVM.BITNET | | | | "A buzzard is two-faced ..." -BB !!yourdead -KRB | | "I'm so hip, I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis." -ZB | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
JMMEYERS@MTUS5.BITNET (John Meyers) (12/19/89)
(In his message, Chuck Banthos writes:) >I also had trouble running the VAUX-Killer demo... >that is until created a directory called backgrounds and moved all >*.bkgd , *.pic , and *.oscn files into it. Then it worked like a charm. Well, I got a most of the files one disk one, including the *.bkgd, *.pics, and *.oscn files, to load in, but I will try it. By the way, what is your memory setup? I'm still not positive that it is supposed to run on 1 meg yet, anyways. Thanks. >| Chuck Banthos CCNY School of Engineering J89CC @ CUNYVM.BITNET | __ , |John M. Meyers -> JMMEYERS@MTUS5.BITNET (_/_ / /)) _ _ _ _ | _/(//)/) / / (-'(/(-'/ ' '-, | "Make Mine /| (/ """"""""""""(_/"""""""""" | /-|MIGA!"
J89CC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (12/19/89)
Sorry I didn't say earlier. I have a : 2000, 3M, 2 disk drive, Seagate 277N connected to GVP controler, NO ECS. When I unzood the files and played it, it played excepted for the back- grounds. I decided to do a hex dump of the file 'TVKD.ms'. In it, I found that the demo was expecting the background files to be in a dir called TVKD1:Backgrounds . I haven't tried it on any other setups, so as far as the minimum goes I don't know. Hope this helps (some more). Chuck ------- +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Chuck Banthos CCNY School of Engineering J89CC @ CUNYVM.BITNET | | | | "A buzzard is two-faced ..." -BB !!yourdead -KRB | | "I'm so hip, I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis." -ZB | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
tdesjardins@spurge.waterloo.edu (Tim Desjardins) (12/19/89)
In article writes: >From: JMMEYERS@MTUS5.BITNET (John Meyers) ... >*.pics, and *.oscn files, to load in, but I will try it. By the way, >what is your memory setup? I'm still not positive that it is supposed >to run on 1 meg yet, anyways. > I'm not so sure about that, VAUX-killer seems to load fine on my machine but when I type 'p' at the white screen it just sits there and does nothing I have a 3 meg machine and when the demo is all done loading I only have 200K left, i.e. it ate 2.5 meg or so and did nothing, also I can't kill the thing once it's started so i have to reboot. Anybody have any ideas. Enquiring minds want to know. Happy holidays. Have a nice day. Tim Desjardins. tdesjardins@spurge.waterloo.{edu|cdn}
keithh@atreus.uucp (Keith Hanlan) (12/20/89)
In article <89351.142834JMMEYERS@MTUS5.BITNET> JMMEYERS@MTUS5.BITNET (John Meyers) writes: > > Has anyone had any problems with the VAUX-KILLERDEMO found on >Fish's 265 and 266 from the MRCNEXT archive? >(I have 1 Meg, and have seen no messages about memory requirements.) It needs 3 (three) MB of RAM. It says that somewhere. Keith Hanlan Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada 613-765-4645 uunet!utgpu!bnr-vpa!bnr-fos!bmers58!atreus!keithh or keithh@bnr.ca
anthes@geocub.greco-prog.fr (Franklin Anthes) (12/22/89)
In article <658@bmers58.UUCP> keithh@atreus.UUCP (Keith Hanlan) writes: >> >> Has anyone had any problems with the VAUX-KILLERDEMO found on >>Fish's 265 and 266 from the MRCNEXT archive? >>(I have 1 Meg, and have seen no messages about memory requirements.) > > It needs 3 (three) MB of RAM. It says that somewhere. Well actually I got it to run on my 2.5 meg machine by making a custom boot disk for it. The demo is run straight from the startup-sequence, with no other programs running. Hope this helps. News filler News filler News filler News filler News filler -- Frank Anthes-Harper : Bien le bonjour de la France anthes@geocub.greco-prog.fr