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--- BY DALE WRIGHT ---
Hello everyone how are you all keeping? Well I hope! Anyway I'm back so to
speak, sorry I was not here last month but the old computer let me down, I
had already written a Chit Chat and a letter to James,saved them to my hard
drive to sort out some disks etc. and then the little devil went to heaven.
It then took me over a week to get back on-line. The problem was;
November last year I moved to a new address and somewhere along the line
the power lead had a nasty knock or got bent at a funny angle and so the
live wire inside the cable had snapped in two and was just making contact so
just before the computer had gone dead on me I must have some how have
knocked or moved the lead, anyway one new lead later and all is well again
so you have all got to put up with me again.
Now the bit a had wrote last time is out of date so let's talk about
something else. I was also going to write a little bit about a computer
clearance sale down my neck of the woods but (not having a lot of luck
lately) the new car I got about four weeks ago let me down. I got 200 yards
down the road and the bloody thing let me down and came to a halt. The
problem was one of the sensors to the engine had worked its way lose and
there was no contact so there was no firing of the engine that's fuel
injected. Anyway an hour and a half later and all was well but I was so
pissed off that I went down the pub instead.
It's getting near the dead line now so what shall I speak about instead? I
know; how about Cannon Fodder,lovely game, yes,really enjoying it. I got to
mission 7, phase 1 and got my first troop killed at the first hut by a
bazooka and the BLOODY game then crashed on me! Well what have I done in
this life to deserve all this bad luck? I don't know but anyway, on with
the point. Let's see had I done something wrong? Was my hard drive and
2nd disc drive still attached? I disconnected all peripherals and then
had another go but the same thing happened again. I tried once more but
the same thing happened again. I then tryed another way so as to
complete Phase 1 thinking that there was just a small bug on that phase
(with me so far). I went on to complete Phase 1 and 2 and then onto Phase
3. Half way along, swimming along a river, "oh look out a bazooka!". I
got killed and yes, you've guessed it, it CRASHED! So what the hell is
going on here? I don't spend my hard earned wages on shit like this so I
went and sat down with a cup of tea and a magazine to read and blow me, in
the letters page someone had written in with the very same problem. Virgin
get stuffed! Anyway I'll ring them later to see what they have to say about
it all but if anyone has any ideas or can help me with this, please get in
contact with me thanks (address at foot of page).
While I'm in a good moody frame of mind, is it any wonder that Atari owners
don't buy so many games as other computer format owners? If this is the
sort of crap the games firms come up with...This is by all means not the
only game I've had trouble with but at least they don't bloody crash on me
like Cannon Fodder! Well, I think that's enough about that little, no
that's wrong, -BIG- problem.
Right what shall I say now, how about "PC"? Yes it's that dreaded format
that I'm about to talk about and ask in a kind of way that is very, very
silly...But that's me all over (just ask James)! Anyway I like to read all
different mags and books of all sorts and this word PC keeps popping up.
Now here comes the silly bit, PC stands for PERSONAL COMPUTER yes well
what the bloody hell is an ATARI then? It's a personal computer to me,
A personal computer just like an Amiga and all the others. They are the
owners 'personal computers' so PC is the wrong thing to call PC's, now I
bet you are getting confused (I am!). What I'm trying to say is to a
newcomer who reads all this PC rubbish and thinks, "I'll get a Personal
Computer" then they may end up with a PC thinking that that is their only
option. The ST and all the others are Personal Computers so PC's should not
be called PC's, they can call them what they like for all I care but PC
is not a make of computer or and abbreviation for its operating system
(well not to me anyway) or anything. The letters PC should stand for
"PERSONAL CRAP!". Well, it must do as they could not come up with a proper
name for that design of computer and I don't care what anyone
says, it's the wrong bloody word.
If PC's are so good how come book shelves are full of instructions how to
run Windows ect ect? Anyway, at the end of the day I'm not having a go at
PC owners, it is their system they like and use It's just the word "PC"....
It's so bloody stupid.
Well I think I have said enough for this time and I shall now just talk
about one last thing. Just to prove someone, somewhere has it in for me,
the other day I needed some info and the only place I could think of was
Norwich Central Library (mind you I have not been there for years now),
well anyway, just two days after me thinking it's the place to go, the
whole place went up in flames! Well bugger me now, what do I do? I'll
have to go somewhere else that's all but sadly the library lost a lot of
books, paperwork, world war 2 material ect. which they will never be able
to replace, sad old world init? Well that's me finished for sure now, so
now for my address as promised if anyone can help with the Cannon Fodder
problem or if you just want to write to me then here is my address:
DALE WRIGHT
22 POCKTHORPE GATE
NORWICH
NORFOLK
NR3 1TU
BYEEE!
POWER : WITH REGARDS TO DALES PROBLEMS WITH CANNON FODDER, DALE
THOUGHT HE HAD SORTED OUT THE PROBLEM BUT HAS NOW FOUND
THAT THE CRASHING HAS JUST MOVED TO DIFFERENT PARTS OF
THE GAME. THE PRODUCERS SAY THAT IT IS SOMETHING TO
DO WITH HAVING OVER 1 MEG OF MEMORY (DALE HAS 4 MEGS!)
SO IF STEER CLEAR OF CANNON FODDER IF YOU'VE GOT MORE
THAN A MEG OF MEMORY UNLESS YOU KNOW OF A CERTAIN WAY
TO OVERCOME THE PROBLEM. THANKS FOR THAT INFO DALE AND
KEEPING ME INFORMED AFTERWARDS. APPRECIATED.