This file is for those of you that have booted this edition of The Crypt 18 from floppy disk. If you are reading The Crypt either "on line", or from the hard drive download from our website, then please read no further.
In the past The Crypt was created on floppy disks and converted to
run from hard disk on its completion. This was very difficult and
also very time consuming! Imagine having to decide from day one of
starting a new edition how many disks would be required when all you
had was perhaps a couple of loading graphics and maybe a few
articles? A crystal ball would have been very useful to us! Times have changed now and there are very few floppy disk users left.
The Crypt is therefore now compiled on hard drive and copied to
floppy as we build up the magazine. This is much easier and faster
for us at RIYAN Productions and the time saved is spent in bringing
you a better and bigger edition.
Yes, because your reading it now. However as you continue your way
around this edition you will soon see the main differences. There
will be more and more prompts for you to insert a different disk.
Obviously if you had several floppy drives the disk changes would be
less frequent. In theory if The Crypt came on 5 disks and you have 5
disk drives you wouldn't have any trouble at all!
Easy folks.. 1) Create a drawer somewhere on your hard drive and name it The
Crypt 18. 2) Now copy ALL the contents of DISK 1 to it. 3) Next in that drawer make two new drawers and name them PICS and
TEXT. 4) Look at DISK 2 and apart from the disk icon you will see two
drawers, PICS and TEXT. Copy all the files in PICS drawer into the
PICS drawer on your hard drive. 5) Now do the same for the TEXT files. 6) Now do exactly the same for the rest of The Crypt floppy disks. 7) Job complete. If you followed these simple instructions correctly
The Crypt will run from hard disk. There are no assigns to worry
about as the IconX script takes care of that when you double click on
The Crypt Icon. 8) Enjoy YOUR magazine.