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- From: mccormac@ee.usafa.af.mil (Chris McCormack)
- Subject: Re: Problem: REU and Arkanoid
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.151946.13085@usafa.af.mil>
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- References: <Jan.11.14.21.38.1993.9960@math.rutgers.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:19:46 GMT
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- In article 9960@math.rutgers.edu, leahy@math.rutgers.edu (Andrew Leahy) writes:
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- > I purchased Arkanoid over Christmas break. It's a fun game, but it
- > doesn't seem to like my REU: I can run the program successfully when
- > I have my REU disconnected. However, when the REU is connected, the title
- > screen comes up and then the program hangs. (All of the sudden, garbage
- > comes on the screen and everything stops.)
- >
- > Is this some sort of copy protection scheme in action? Does anyone
- > have any suggestions for overcoming this problem? I'd prefer not to
- > have my ten year-old brother tear out the REU every time he wants to
- > play.
- >
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- Yup - Unfortunately, Arkanoid is paranoid and doesn't want to boot if it detects
- anything in the expansion port (trying to beat the 'freeze' cartridges). If you
- do find a way around the problem, please be sure to post it. I have my C128 in a
- desk, making the cartridge port a bear to access. (But Arkanoid is one of the best
- games I've ever seen on the C64/C128.)
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- : BUMPER ?FORTH IF HONK THEN ; Chris McCormack
- mccormac@ee.usafa.af.mil
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- > Andrew Leahy
- > leahy@math.rutgers.edu
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