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EnigmA AMIGA RUN 08 (1996)(G.R. Edizioni)(IT)[!][issue 1996-06][EARSAN CD VII].iso
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How It All Happened
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One night, after waiting forever (or a real long time) for Chaos Strikes
Back to boot up on floppy, I decided that with my registration card, I
would also send a nasty letter to FTL explaining how I really don't like
games that aren't hard drive installable. Then I decided that I would also
go on to explain that I would like to be able to multitask with this game.
I have spent enough money on 3 megs of RAM and 130 megs of hard drive. Why
should their $30 program render my expansion useless by forcing me to run
off floppy and not be able to multitask? Well anyway...
I thought I had better make sure that this puppy actually isn't hard drive
installable before I write them a letter and make them mad and make them
write me a nasty letter back saying something about me being stupid and
all of that stuff. In order to save face, I looked around on both drives
and in all of the sub-dirs for anything that said 'INSTALL' or was even
close. No luck. I checked all of the manuals. No luck. I copied all of
the files from the program disk to a dir on the HD and did an 'Assign
DungeonMaster: DH1:CSB'. It said Damaged Disk or something. I tried a
couple of other far-flung things. Still nothing.
Then inspiration struck. I copied everything to RAD:. I relabeled RAD: as
DungeonMaster:. I left the original in DF0:. I went to RAD: and typed
the Version >nil: and BJELoad_R lines from the StartUp-Sequence and very
quickly the FTL swoop swooped. It accessed DF0: for a little while
and stopped. I thought it STOPPED. Then the 'Presents' and titles screens
popped up. I was amazed. It then again check DF0: shortly. A while later
the Prison/Resume screen came up. I selected Resume and it asked me to
put the Save Game disk in DF0:. I behaved and it loaded my game. Then
it told me to stick the Master Disk in DF0:. It loaded the rest of the game
from RAD: and at the end checked DF0: before it said Game Loaded and Ready
to Play! I was stunned.
I did it again and it worked again. I had successfully installed Chaos
Strikes Back to RAD:! I thought wow, that's great, but I still haven't put
it on the hard drive where I want it. I could copy the file to the hard
drive and load them to RAD: when I wanted to play. This seemed too cheesy
to me. It is at this point the I remembered a thing called FMS. This would
create floppy like partitions on a HD, which would be just like RAD: 'cept
on the HD! So I called The Cafe' BBS, which is one of the best systems in
my area, got FMS, and went to work and soon it was done! Now I have Chaos
Strikes Back on the hard drive, and it takes a lot less time to boot, and
I am a very happy person! :-)
Jason Sims/Death Knight
(Maybe I should change my alias to Deth Knight in honor
of this excellent game?!?)