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- From: jmunkki@vipunen.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
- Subject: Re: What is Maelstrom 1.03 game doing while loading?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.023909.3248@nntp.hut.fi>
- Sender: usenet@nntp.hut.fi (Usenet pseudouser id)
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- Reply-To: jmunkki@vipunen.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
- References: <01062012.n9s1n1@inter.interzone.ch>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 02:39:09 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <01062012.n9s1n1@inter.interzone.ch> chip@interzone.ch writes:
- >Every time I start it up, it displays a startup screen and
- >a progress indicator labeled "Loading". It usually takes
- >about 10 seconds to complete. During this time, my harddisk
- >makes sounds that are very similar to the ones that my
- >HD indexing program produces when searching.
- >
- >Is this program scanning my HD for something?
- >Has anybody else noticed this behaviour? Is there a programm
- >that will let me check wich files are opened by the game?
-
- This has got to be the funniest post of the week.
-
- Some programs actually do something while they display the splash
- screen and a show a "loading" indicator. (It is customary for evil
- programmers to put waiting loops in their programs in order to irritate
- the customers and make them buy faster computers so that the processor
- can execute more NOPs in the busy waiting loop.)
-
- Maelstrom has all those sprite shapes as color icon resources
- in one big file. It steps through those resources one by one
- and probably converts them to some obscure format. Unfortunately
- the resources are not in sequential order in the resource file,
- so the disk drive has to seek back and forth.
-
- So, it isn't looking at your files. It's just doing what it is
- supposed to be doing: loading the game.
-
- --
- Juri Munkki Windsurf: fast sailing
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