Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET (Z4648252) (04/24/89)
A letter was posted in which a user was having bombs with Falcon and
was upset at the 'quality' of that Spectrum product.
I have Falcon and am using it on my Mega. I have had no problem with
getting to use it on my machine. I did have a problem in that part of
my manual was slashed. I wrote Spectrum, mailing my old manual in. Within
two weeks after my mailing, a letter of apology was written to me and a
new manual was in the envelope.
Regarding the bombs that the user mentioned, I've had none. However,
assuming that the Falcon disk of his is not corrupted as a result of the
disk duplication service that Spectrum contracts, it could be a problem of
his machine.
My Mega2 had a problem of erratic crashes on especially involved programs.
My dealer analyzed the machine and said that I had two 'weak' ram drivers,
whatever those are. He replaced the two chips and I haven't had any problem
since.
Regarding not being able to load Falcon onto a hard drive, I'll
agree with any complaints in that regard. I hate it. Captain Blood
and Dungeon Master are also equally guilty. I detest waiting minutes
for a game to load when I have a hard drive with the space available
to use.
Don't know if this feedback is of any help or not...
Larry Rymal <Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET>hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) (04/28/89)
I posted the original complaint about running Falcon on my Mega. I've sent in my registration cards but haven't done much else yet. I was able to get a copy running on my system by borrowing a friend's floppy drive. Since the problem was related to disk drive speed, the solution was simple - my friend's floppy drive *could* read my disks, so I copied the Falcon disks by reading off his drive and writing onto my internal drive. I now have a set of Falcon disks that will only work on my system, which suits me fine. However, I *am* going to get this to load off my hard drive, one way or another. -- -=- PrayerMail: Send 100Mbits to holyghost@father.son[127.0.0.1] and You Too can have a Personal Electronic Relationship with God!