simpson@skink.cis.ohio-state.edu (john simpson) (03/28/91)
I ran into a rather disturbing problem last night and was
wondering if anyone else had encountered it. I was playing a
version of Omega (v. 0.71 (beta)) that I had just ftp'd and
found myself dumped back to DOS with an "overlay not found" error.
Oh well, I thought, the doc warned of bugs so I'll start over,
right? Wrong. Every time I tried to run a program (omega, chkdsk
and nu in that order) on my hard drive I got errors about damaged
FATs and corrupt EXE files. With a sinking feeling in my stomach
(how many times had I warned others to make backups?) I ran chkdsk
from A: -- no errors! C: and D: checked out fine (partitions on
a 40 meg drive). I warm booted and everything was back to normal.
Has anyone else seen this? Is it connected with omega or is it
"common" after failed overlays? I ran virus checks before and after
(scan67) and my system's clean. I'm running DOS 3.3 and had cmdedt
and print resident.
After this happened I used Archie to locate what looked like a
more recent version of omega. After I ftp'd it I discovered it was
the same (but arc'd, not zipped and with a more recent date on the
arc'd file) and ran into the same problem, failed overlay when I tried
to enter a certain building. Can anyone point me to the most recent
version?
Thanks,
John
p.s. please don't email to the account this is posted from, it's a student
account which will soon die.
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John R. Simpson jrs27@cas.bitnet
"It's a dog eat dog world out there and I'm wearing Milkbone underwear" -Normcctr132@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Nick FitzGerald, CSC, Uni. of Canterbury, NZ) (03/29/91)
In article <101389@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, simpson@skink.cis.ohio-state.edu (john simpson) writes: > > version of Omega (v. 0.71 (beta)) that I had just ftp'd and > found myself dumped back to DOS with an "overlay not found" error. > Oh well, I thought, the doc warned of bugs so I'll start over, > right? Wrong. Every time I tried to run a program (omega, chkdsk > and nu in that order) on my hard drive I got errors about damaged > FATs and corrupt EXE files. With a sinking feeling in my stomach > (how many times had I warned others to make backups?) I ran chkdsk > from A: -- no errors! C: and D: checked out fine (partitions on > a 40 meg drive). I warm booted and everything was back to normal. > > Has anyone else seen this? Is it connected with omega or is it > "common" after failed overlays? I ran virus checks before and after > (scan67) and my system's clean. I'm running DOS 3.3 and had cmdedt > and print resident. Haven't seen this with this prog (don't have it) but have seen similar problems occasionally. My _guess_ is that Omega is writing "out of bounds" and corrupting either the system's partial copy of FAT#1 that is kept in RAM or (if you have it or similar running) corrupting FASTOPEN's table of file entries. If so, CHKDSK, NU, and OMEGA must be represented in the same in-memory area of the FAT and thus the FAT doesn't have to be re-read to load and run them, and because it's corrupted problems arise. Did you try going back to C: or D: after running CHKDSK from floppy - this would have (probably) forced a re-read of the FAT from disk and all would have been well again. If you supply more details on where in the game things went wrong, someone with the game and BoundsChecker might be able to check it out (or the author might be reading and be able to work on a bug-fix). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nick FitzGerald, PC Applications Consultant, CSC, Uni of Canterbury, N.Z. Internet: n.fitzgerald@csc.canterbury.ac.nz Phone: (64)(3) 642-337
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (03/31/91)
In article <101389@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <simpson@skink.cis.ohio-state.edu> writes: > > I ran into a rather disturbing problem last night and was > wondering if anyone else had encountered it. Someone has posted an application question to the binary group. I have that problem myself a lot. This is not about anything which has been or might be posted to c.b.i.p! Please do not post replies, and if you must communicate with the original poster, please mention that this is the wrong group. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me