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- From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
- Subject: Re: Sherlock CD
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.025000.14621@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 02:50:00 GMT
- Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
- References: <43.2b3edc17@ivgate>
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- In article <43.2b3edc17@ivgate> michael.davidson@macrocosm.omahug.org writes:
- >(Konstantin Peric S.W.I.F.T.) writes:
- >
- >>I've recently bought a NEC CD Rom drive (model CDR-25) to connect to my
- >>Mac II SI. Along with the drive, I also bought the "Sherlok Holmes consulting
- >>detective" game. The game contains many real-time video parts.
- >>
- >>The problem is that the game crashes ("corrupt scene file") randomly when
- >>playing the video scenes. Sometimes, it'll play out the entire scene, and othe
- >>times it will crash at random intervals.
- >
- >Matthew T. Russotto writes:
- >>the CDRom needs a 380ms maximum access and a150KB/s data transfer rate.
- >
- >
- >If MTR's suggestion doesn't fit, try this. If I remember correctly, you need to
- >turn 32 bit addressing off to use Sherlok Holmes cd rom.
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- If so, it isn't Sherlock's fault. I've been running fine under 32-bit
- addressing. But I've heard the NEC drivers aren't quite 32-bit clean.
-
- BTW, did anyone else go through the trouble of deciphering the
- backwards sound in the about box of Sherlock II? :-)
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