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- From: sorourke@lonestar.utsa.edu (Sean J. Orourke)
- Subject: Re: Games and the A: drive
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.094933.23584@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Keywords: Games Floppy
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- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
- References: <8478@news.duke.edu> <1993Jan11.211418.29579@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 09:49:33 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.211418.29579@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
- >In article <8478@news.duke.edu> dbhlve@acpub.duke.edu (Robert Newlin) writes:
- >>This probably should be a FAQ, but I didn't find it. My kids got an
- >>Ultima Game Set from Origin for Christmas. When I try to run it, it says
- >>"Insert orginal disk on drive A:". I assume it is trying to read some
- >>flakey sector or something. Is there some way I can get around this
- >>without booting with DOS?
- >
- >Games that try to ignore DOS and directly read hard-drive sectors
- >(like Lemmings) fail when trying to read a drive under OS/2. They
- >can't directly access any sectors, and under specific DOS sessions,
- >they think they're using network drives. So they always ask for the
- >key disk in drive A:, when they can't directly access it on your hard
- >drive.
- >
- >At least that's my theory.
- >
- Good theory, but wrong. :) I don't think Lemmings or the earlier Ultimas
- act any differently under OS/2 than DOS. Lemmings will occasionally ask
- for the key disk no matter what, and the Ultimas always do. Since Lemmings
- uses a hidden file to remember whether you've failed to use the key disk
- recently, finding it and making it read-only will fix it. (Email me if this
- is unclear.)
-
- BTW, I don't advocate software piracy; key disks are just a pain.
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