hellfire@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Brian Young) (01/22/91)
I just got "The Immortal" for my 1000. When I try to boot it (under 1.3), the screen turns white, purple, then black and begins loading for about 3 seconds. Then, it pauses, and loads for 3 more seconds with a pause in between each disk access endlessly. The manual says that "No hard drives or extra drives are supported." I have an external floppy, which I unplugged to no avail. I also have a Supra Drive and SCSI controller, attached to my bus. This controller also passes the bus to my Microbotics 1.5 Meg expansion, which is also equipped with a SCSI controller (currently unused). With the harddrive off and no Workbench to activate it, I see no reason why the harddrive should interfere (unlike the floppy, which is automatically activated). Could it be the presence of the controller through which the memory must pass on the bus that is the problem? Sorry that this is so poorly worded. My initial impression with this game is utter disappointment! (And I haven't even seen it yet!) WHY have both disk and manual protection? That is crap. If it's the European pirate boom they're so worried about, then sell a different version here! Electronic Arts' games (or at least the ones they distribute) show a disturbing trend toward one-drive support ...only! If I have to unplug my controller EVERYTIME I wish to play the game, EA will be receiving a package from me soon! Thanks in advance! -- *--------------------------------------*------------------------------------* | hellfire@catt.ncsu.edu - Brian Young | 'For he hath dined on honey-dew, | *--------------------------------------* And drunk the milk of Paradise.' | |RUSH, Doctor Who, and Amiga -- The finer things of life! -Coleridge |
eric@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Eric Quintana) (01/24/91)
hellfire@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Brian Young) writes: > I just got "The Immortal" for my 1000. When I try to boot it (under 1.3), >the screen turns white, purple, then black and begins loading for about 3 >seconds. Then, it pauses, and loads for 3 more seconds with a pause in >between each disk access endlessly. Did you wait long enough? The game does the same thing on my A3000 (load -- pause -- load -- pause) for about a couple of minutes. Eventually, it stops and asks for the next disk. I know how you feel. I nearly returned the game because during the initial loading, there is NO indication that the game is loading properly. If you listen to the drive start and stop, you think that something is wrong. As an aside, Immortal DOES run properly on my A3000 when I boot under 1.3. It even runs under 2.0 except that the text will sometimes scroll by too fast to read. I wish it was HD installable. Eric Quintana eric@rorschach.sps.mot.com Motorola Microprocessor Design (512) 891-2915 -- Eric Quintana eric@rorschach.sps.mot.com Motorola Microprocessor Design (512) 891-2915
itch@cbnews.att.com (richard.m.brack) (02/12/91)
In article <1991Jan21.184400.25129@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>, hellfire@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Brian Young) writes: > > I just got "The Immortal" for my 1000. When I try to boot it (under 1.3), > the screen turns white, purple, then black and begins loading for about 3 > seconds. Then, it pauses, and loads for 3 more seconds with a pause in > between each disk access endlessly. The manual says that "No hard drives > or extra drives are supported." I have an external floppy, which I unplugged > to no avail. > I also have a Supra Drive and SCSI controller, attached to my bus. This > controller also passes the bus to my Microbotics 1.5 Meg expansion, which > is also equipped with a SCSI controller (currently unused). With the harddrive > off and no Workbench to activate it, I see no reason why the harddrive should > interfere (unlike the floppy, which is automatically activated). Could it > be the presence of the controller through which the memory must pass on the > bus that is the problem? Well, I'm playing Immortal on a 2000 with 2 internal floppy drives and a Supra Hard Drive. The loading is VERY strange, but it loads. I put the Boot disk in df0:. It will acces it for a while, then the light on df1: blinks a few times, then it goes back to df0:, then to df1:, df0:, df1:.... until it finally asks for the Play disk. I think it does take a few minutes. It is a pitty... it really is a wonderful game, but the lack of 2 drive support is disturbing (let alone HardDrive/OS support). Throwing in the manual protection with the disk protection really sucks! > Sorry that this is so poorly worded. My initial impression with this game > is utter disappointment! (And I haven't even seen it yet!) WHY have both Keep trying...it IS a VERY GOOD game... > disk and manual protection? That is crap. If it's the European pirate boom > they're so worried about, then sell a different version here! Electronic > Arts' games (or at least the ones they distribute) show a disturbing trend > toward one-drive support ...only! If I have to unplug my controller EVERYTIME > I wish to play the game, EA will be receiving a package from me soon! > Thanks in advance! ANY TWO DISK GAME SHOULD SUPPORT TWO DRIVES!!!!!! THE IS NO EXCUSE!!! > -- > *--------------------------------------*------------------------------------* > | hellfire@catt.ncsu.edu - Brian Young | 'For he hath dined on honey-dew, | > *--------------------------------------* And drunk the milk of Paradise.' | > |RUSH, Doctor Who, and Amiga -- The finer things of life! -Coleridge | RichBrack -- { the itchman cometh /-/ _ i don't want to be your angel } { itch@cbnews.att.com /-/ _|_|_ i want to be your witch! } { att!cbnews!itch \-\/-/ ( * )tch -yello } { \/\/ /^\ }