home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: red-branch.MIT.EDU!not-for-mail
- From: rid@red-branch.MIT.EDU (Shawna or Lars Hansen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Anybody want to fix Harpoon?
- Date: 13 Apr 1996 02:25:55 GMT
- Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
- Message-ID: <4kn3bj$ppf@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
- References: <4kg9j3$bv3@storm.cycor.ca> <4khn0h$gaf@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <4kj10f$hd0@storm.cycor.ca>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: red-branch.mit.edu
- X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0]
-
- Dennis Grant (dgrant@dgrant.peinet.pe.ca) wrote on 11 Apr 1996 13:21:19 GMT:
- : In article <4khn0h$gaf@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> rid@red-branch.MIT.EDU (Shawna or Lars Hansen) writes:
- : > Dennis Grant (dgrant@peinet.pe.ca) wrote on 10 Apr 1996 12:29:23 GMT:
- : > : Is anybody else out there as pissed as me that Harpoon won't work on
- : > : A3000/4000 series machines?
- : > :
- : > : For those that don't know, it works OK, until you have to select an (for
- : > : example) air patrol spot on the game map. Then it locks up.
- : > :
- : > : This suggests to me a brain-dead screen feedback routine, something that
- : > : should be patchable.
- : > :
- : > : Anybody care to take a crack at it?
- : > :
- : > :
- : > : --
- : > : --------------------------
- : > : Dennis Grant
- : > : dgrant@cycor.ca
- : > : http://www.cycor.ca/TCave/
- : >
- : > This has very little to do with what machine you are running the game on,
- : > but rather the OS you're running it under. Harpoon was created to work
- : > with ks/wb 1.3, and the game is not compatible with the 2.1/3.1 changes,
- : > which causes the said crash. The use of a degrader shoudl possibly solve
- : > your problem...
- :
- : Well then, how hard could it be to patch it to work with 2+ level OS's?
- :
- : Wanna take a crack at it?
- :
- :
- : --
- : --------------------------
- : Dennis Grant
- : dgrant@cycor.ca
- : http://www.cycor.ca/TCave/
-
- Don't know enough about it to even try it ... And I'm too busy fixing the
- battlesets :)
-
- --
- * Lars M. Hansen
-