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From: tm11369@acs.appstate.edu (Hungry Jack)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: 1.666 patch not working HELP!
Date: 6 Sep 1994 21:30:48 GMT
Organization: Appalachian State University
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Message-ID: <34in28$ooh@lester.appstate.edu>
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Pete Nilson (pnilson@hpb.hwc.ca) wrote:
: I upgraded from 1.2 registered straight to 1.666. Should I have done the
: 1.6b first?
: If I let the game sit there, as soon as it tries to load it's demo, it
: craps out to DOS, saying Demo - wrong game version. Not my fault! It's
: the one that id made!
: If I hit ENTER fast enough to load a game w/o the demo popping up, I
: still get smashed out to DOS, this time with
: W_GetNumForName: STTMINUS not found!
: What the hell is that? What have I done wrong, and is there any way of
: fixing it? I finally get the patch, and now it's screwed my DOOM.
: Help please!
: Bye for now,
: Mostly Harmless
: ******************************************************************************
: Don't Panic!
: ******************************************************************************
Looks like your DOOM.WAD file isn't the correct one. Have you patched
it with anything like add-ons or graphics patches? The best thing you
can do is whip out your originals and re-install doom 1.2. Then try the
1.666 patch again. It should work then.
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Academic Computing Services
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