donw@zehntel (Don White) (09/16/89)
[ This space for rent.]
A friend of mine came over to show me a great game he just bought. It was
called Bloodwych. He bought it for his Amiga 500. He'd been telling me about
it for a week or two.
It would not boot on the 1000. I tried it on my brothers' 2000. It works
without a problem. My friend says his 500 does not have a problem. Both the
2000 and the 500 have expansion memory, so that's not the problem. And all
my other programs work without a problem. And my memory checking program
says my memory is fine. So, there seems to be one conclusion. It just is
not compatible with the Amiga 1000. OUCH!!!
[I am, of course, talking about the master copy of the program.]
[I am not a pirate. ]
This is odd because, the graphics are not especially fast or detailed.
The sound is not incredible. And, the game does not require lightning fast
reflexes. So, what gives? Just bad programming?
From my short look at it on the Amiga 2000, it looks like a Dungeon Master
style game (which IS my favorite) so it is a shame I cannot buy this program!
If the authors are on this network, or if you are a friend of a friend of
the programmers of Bloodwych. Please get the message to them.
The 1000 CAN ONLY BECOME OBSOLETE when PROGRAMMERS stop supporting it.
Commodore doesn't really decide this, third party developers do.
For those of you that suffered through this posting. Thanks!
For those that didin't ... THPTHPTHPOTHPTHPT!!!!
(They won't see this anyway. ;-)
Don White
Box 271177
Concord, CA. 94527-1177
zehntel!donwrusty@fe2o3.UUCP (Rusty Haddock) (09/16/89)
In article <1434@zehntel.UUCP> donw@zehntel (Don White) writes: >[ This space for rent.] > > A friend of mine came over to show me a great game he just bought. It was > It would not boot on the 1000. I tried it on my brothers' 2000. It works > ... So, there seems to be one conclusion. It just is > not compatible with the Amiga 1000. OUCH!!! *SEEMS* is the keyword here. Did you ever stop to think that JUST MAYBE the disk is unreadable by your A1000's disk drive? This could be caused by the disk's head being out of alignment. If the game doesn't require 1-Meg of chip RAM and/or certain keys that are only on a 2000 and 500 (although this is unlikely) the machines are very much the same from a software's point of view. One thing to try to find out: If the disk can be copied and your A1000 has an external driver then trying copying the game to a floppy in your internal drive. Now try booting. This way, if your external drive can read the floppy, your internal can write the format the way it likes, screwed up as it may be (if it's not too screwed up). If this works maybe you need to get your floppy adjusted. Then again.... it could be the drive's rotation speed. DISCLAIMER: NO! I AM NOT SUGGESTING PIRACY!!! THIS IS ONLY FOR TEST PURPOSES. CONCLUSION: There are still too many factors unknown about your predicament and thusly it's not evident that your Amiga1000 (or mine) is getting wrinkles. Still, let us know what happens. Good luck! -Rusty- -- Rusty Haddock o {uunet,att,rutgers}!mimsy.umd.edu!fe2o3!rusty Laurel, Maryland o "IBM sucks silicon!" -- PC Banana Jr, "Bloom County"