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- From: wiedeman@altair.acs.uci.edu (Lyle Wiedeman)
- Subject: DM on Amiga -- floppy disk problems
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- Date: 7 Jan 93 04:16:51 GMT
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- I am just about fed up with DM, and I wonder if anyone on the net
- has advice.
-
- I have had the game for years, and finally got around to playing it.
- What with the maps and the walkthroughs published, I was having a lot
- of fun, and not getting frustrated.
-
- One day in the middle of level 12, I was trying to save my game, and
- the save crashed, leaving an invalid disk. The problems seemed to be
- so severe that my standard disk salvage program was just making things
- more confused, so I used DiskDoctor, and recovered my backup saved games,
- but DM complained that they were all damaged. (This is a VERY laborious
- process, as I have to boot AmigaDos to rename each one "DMGame.dat" and
- then boot DungeonMaster to try it out.)
-
- So, I decided to start over, with a new save disk, copying my saves
- intermittently to hard disk as insurance against another floppy disk
- failure. Sure enough, in the middle of a save on level 4, DM hung,
- and upon rebooting, the disk couldn't be validated. DiskDoctor
- restored the disk again, and I copied the recovered files to a fresh
- disk, but DM claimed (again) all the saves were damaged. I restored
- my earlier saves from hard disk, and DM complained about those, too.
-
- How can a person finish a long, involved game without a reliable save
- mechanism? What is it about the saved games that makes them intractable
- to AmigaDos operations (copying them seems to corrupt them, but the
- file sizes never change)? And I can't play CSB either, without an
- advanced DM save! I wish FTL/Software Heaven had a technical support
- line; by the time I get an answer to a letter to San Diego, I'll be
- playing something else (like Black Crypt!).
-
- Any advice? Otherwise, I'll make some pretty disk art with a pair
- of scissors, and stay away from FTL with their archaic clinging to
- copy protection mechanisms which leave honest customers like me
- in the lurch.
-
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