john13@garfield.UUCP (06/30/87)
[] Whew! 1 week of "no news in subscribed to newsgroups", now 143 unread articles in comp.sys.amiga. OK: Thanks to everyone for help with Pagesetter; I haven't had time to try it all out yet. Logo on the Amiga would be a great help when people are asking around for educational software, or something besides games that they can let their kids use. When I first tried my hand at graphics, and lacking bezioid examples, the first thing I did was write fd(), rt(), lt(), bk(), pu, pd, etc... IN *C* :-) . I won't be posting MandFXP as, happily, the other groups are back up and showing lots of new goodies. Thanks, Doc. In article <4807@sgi.SGI.COM>, hal@pigiron.SGI.COM (John Hallesy) writes: [ actual helpful advice deleted ] > >Sounds like you're just a second rate pirate, my friend. The protection scheme >prevents people like you from copying the game with the CLI copy command. Glad >to see it's doing its job correctly (heh heh)! Just a tip: it's not a good idea >to ask about such things on usenet, for fear of overflowing your mailbox with >indignant flames. Some days you can't win. Not only do I get angry e-mail from the guy I sold the game to ("You said it worked under 1.2!"), when I try to fix the problem for him I get...an angry posting from the author's relatives. FYI: Running fixhunk on a program is difficult if your keymap can't generate the necessary foreign characters. Although you can copy it to ram: via Workbench and rename it Deja_Vu the same way, you cannot then copy that *back* to the disk, under the same or the original name. You can of course delete the first file...unless it's delete-protected...but you can un-delete-protect it... unless the .info file refuses to save. So you wind up telling the guy "Nothing I can do unless someone on UseNet knows. Maybe the author's brother or someone!" :-). Not to imply that this is more aggravation than it's worth or anything :-(, or that not everyone selling the game is on the net. >P.S. Marauder II had brain files for Deja Vu before the game was ever released! Which doesn't help the people whose *originals* misbehave. John