dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com (Dennis Francis Heffernan) (09/02/90)
This will probably get me flamed, but here goes: I recently started playing Dungeon Master again after a hiatus of a few months. But when I went to save the game, it refused to recognize any of the disks I fed it, even the ones I formatted from within the game. The manual wasn't any help, and I can't find the reference card that came with it- were there any special instructions for saving the game on that card? This isn't going to be very much fun if I can't save... Dennis Francis Heffernan | "Remember the words of your teacher, dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com | your master: Evil moves fast, but ...uunet!tronsbox!dfrancis | Good moves faster!" Original text (c) 1990 | --Partners in Kryme, T-U-R-T-L-E Power!
TEW105@psuvm.psu.edu (09/05/90)
I have this same problem. I had it when I only had one drive and still have
it with two. With two drives, the soulution is simple... most of the time
DM will not recognize a disk unless you put it in the second drive BEFORE you
boot. If you only have one drive you just have to keep rebooting until it
decides to recognize the disk. I do not know what the problem is or if there
is a better solution. Anyone?
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ELSE'S AND ESPECIALLY NOT THE CAC'S! | A |roccom@tahoe.unr.edu (RoCCo mArtIn) (09/05/90)
I had the same problem. The solution is to call the company that distributes DM (I can't recall the name right off hand). They will tell you to send in your original, and they will send you an updated version. I'm not at home right now so I can't tell you which version I have off hand, but I can tell you that it works! Another fix I have heard about is to unplug your second drive (totally unacceptable, but it works...) Best of luck!, - Rocco -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Usenet: uunet!unrvax!tahoe!roccom Internet: roccom@tahoe.unr.edu Withoutannette: mousketeers@disney.land.fun (ok, so its not very punny ...)
jasonf@cetemp.Eng.Sun.COM (Jason Freund) (09/05/90)
More than once, I've had to revert to the backup saved game. DM automatically saves 2 games: dmgame.dat and dmgame.bak -- or something like that. Anyway, just copy the ??.bak to the ??.dat. Jason Freund, Sun Microsystems, jasonf@cetemp.Corp.sun.com <== summer address Deprtmnt of Computer Science, Univ California, Davis. freund@sakura.ucdavis.edu Quantum Link: JasonF5, Compu$erve: 72007,244, 690 Erie Dr, Sunnyvale, CA 94087 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STOLEN QUOTES -- Please give the authors credit if you know who they are! "To understand recursion, you need to understand recursion." "Wow! Virtual memory! Now I'm gonna build me a REALLY big ram disk!" "My other computer is a SUN3/50." "E. Pluribus UNIX" -- authors unkown