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- From: mancini@fysik.uu.se (Derrick C. Mancini)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: What is Maelstrom 1.03 game doing while loading?
- Message-ID: <mancini-100193160248@usx221.fysik.uu.se>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 15:08:11 GMT
- References: <01062012.n9s1n1@inter.interzone.ch> <1993Jan10.023909.3248@nntp.hut.fi>
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- In article <1993Jan10.023909.3248@nntp.hut.fi>, jmunkki@vipunen.hut.fi
- (Juri Munkki) wrote:
- >
- > 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.
- > >
- ...
- >
- > 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.
- >
-
- Well, maybe so. I observed the same noisy searching. The STRANGE
- thing is that I heard the same thing when I first installed the program,
- before even running it. Maybe resources/code are set up in a strange
- way? I know no other program that does this, to this extent.
-
- By the way, OTHERWISE, a GREAT game. My kudos to the author, I DID
- SEND IN THE REGISTRATION FEE, I advocate that YOU ALL DO TOO!
-
- Derrick C. Mancini
- Fysiska Institutionen - Uppsala Universitet
- Box 530 S751 21 Uppsala Sverige
- mancini@fysik.uu.se
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