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- From: rid@red-branch.MIT.EDU (Shawna or Lars Hansen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic
- Subject: Re: Anybody want to fix Harpoon?
- Date: 13 Apr 1996 15:58:16 GMT
- Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
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- Ross Y Cohen (rycohen@acsu.buffalo.edu) wrote on 13 Apr 1996 06:24:53 GMT:
- : In article <4kn3bj$ppf@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>,
- : Shawna or Lars Hansen <rid@red-branch.MIT.EDU> wrote:
- : >Dennis Grant (dgrant@dgrant.peinet.pe.ca) wrote on 11 Apr 1996 13:21:19 GMT:
- : >: In article <4khn0h$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?
- :
- : >: > : Anybody care to take a crack at it?
- :
- : >: > which causes the said crash. The use of a degrader shoudl possibly solve
- : >: > your problem...
- :
- : TUDE (aminet, somewhere) works fine, if you want to play. You have
- : reboot, of course, dumping the entire system - not my favorite
- : thing to do. On a 1st person perspective game this is acceptable,
- : but on a management/strategy game it is not. Nevertheless, I do
- : still, occasionally play.
- :
- : >: Well then, how hard could it be to patch it to work with 2+ level OS's?
- : >: Wanna take a crack at it?
- :
- : >Don't know enough about it to even try it ... And I'm too busy fixing the
- : >battlesets :)
- :
- : I would like to see it fixed, though the expertize required to do
- : that is far beyond me.
- : I am, however haltingl, working on a game which will make Harpoon entirely
- : obsolete. I might be done within 10 years.
- :
- : Ross.
- :
- Maybe someone could get a hold of the source code. It's supposed to be
- 88% C, so it should be fairly easy to figure out what is going on. And
- since the new 'owner' of Harpoon apparently have no intesion to support
- the Amiga, they should let others take over that part...
- Heh, but then again, maybe not...
-
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- * Lars M. Hansen
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