Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
References: <1822@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 09:55:44 GMT
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In article <1822@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>, labdg@emory.edu (Diego) writes:
|> You know, I've always considered myself a patient person, but
|> Origin's disks really drive me crazy (you'd think they warehouse
|> the #$%^ things next to a giant magnet). I just went through 3
|> different copies of UW2 from two different stores and EACH and
|> EVERY one had a botched up disk one (DOS crc errors & sector not
|> founds when trying to install or back up). Finally I returned it
|> and went for a nice battlechess on cd-rom (no chance of bad floppy
|> there ;-). The sad part is, many if not most of my other Origin
|> games seem to have come on disposable disks as well. My original
|> Ultima Underworld disks went bad after 6 months, while my first set
|> of Wing Commander I disks were completely dead on arrival (as were
|> the next four sets I tried), and my Wing Commander II disks died
|> about 4 months after purchase (good thing for the cd-rom edition!).
|>
|> So, what gives?! I've bought all of the above at various common
|> stores in Atlanta, GA (not bob's discount no-name reseller in
|> the far east somewhere) and I doubt that ALL of these stores have
|> bad merchandise handling practices. Moreover, other companies
|> software seems to have a much lower rate of failure as far as I can
|> tell.
|>
|> *Flame off*
|>
|> So, I think perhaps I'll try the NEXT shipment of UW2 disks they
|> get here.
|>
|> -Regards,
|> -Diego Gallina (labdg@unix.cc.emory.edu)
Did you ever have your floppy disk recalibrated? If it's out of sync only a bit it's likely to work with most disks you feed it, however, it might cough on disks that were formatted on specific drives (that are a bit out of sync as well, only in the "opposite direction"). I never had any problems with Origin disks, but I did with Microprose ones for exactly this reason.
