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- From: O10037@waccvm.corp.mot.com (Ray Hoff)
- Subject: Re: Superstor VS. Stacker...You Make The Call
- Organization: Motorola
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 15:11:15 MST
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.133057.10919@schbbs.mot.com>
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- >>>> The other half is for games like Ultima. Should I compress the 'work'
- >>>> part of the drive and leave the game part alone (i.e. partition) ? I
- >>>> know many games will not work with the compression programs like Ultima.
- >>>>
- >>>> Please give me your views and experience with these programs...
- >>>>
-
- >Greetings!
-
- >I don't have any experience with Ultima, but using SuperStor, the game
- >Castle Wolfenstein has problems with the speed of the decompression.
- >I'm assuming this is the problem because I hadn't had it when I ran
- >Wolf on an uncompressed drive. I imaging the game constantly loads
- >it's mazes from the HD. So any games that run in real time and load
- >data from the HD will probably be affected.
-
- I use SuperStor on a 386dx/20 with a pitifully small 28ms 40 meg hard
- drive. When running Castle Wolfenstein 3d (the shareware version) I
- have absolutely no problems.
-
- Ray
-