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- From: wde@media03.UUCP (Wim Dekker)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
- Subject: Re: Starflight2 help!
- Message-ID: <2902@media03.UUCP>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 15:22:15 GMT
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- Organization: Mediasystemen, Netherlands
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- mzhang@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Min Zhang) writes:
- : I recently bought a pretty old game from someone through mail, starflight2.
- : There is problem with the game which both the sender and I couldn't figure
- : out why. When I install the game(origianl disks), and start a new game,
- : everything is OK. But when I press ESC and try to save it,
- : four option suppose to
- : pop up, Save & Resume, Save & Quit, Resume, Quit. But Save & Resume
- : option is missing. OK, that's fine, not a big problem. But when I used
- : the Save & Quit option, it says "game saved" and exit to the mainmenu in
- : dos. And I tried to resume the game, save it as a different game, I tried
- : all the options besides
- : Start a New Game and Quit, but I always get the same message,"There is
- : no saved game" and I did use Save & Quit. I tried install a couple times,
- : tried a few different new games and nothing seems to work.
- [ stuff deleted ]
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- I've had the same problem. It looks like this game is made for DOS 3.2
- or earlier, and can't handle disk sizes bigger then 32Mb. If you run it
- in a RAM drive of say 3Mb, or in a partion which is completely inside
- the first 32Mb of your harddisk, you don't have a problem.
-
- Wim
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