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- From: mgreeny@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (David S. Greenberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: What is Maelstrom 1.03 game doing while loading?
- Date: 10 Jan 1993 22:23:40 -0600
- Organization: Greeny's Bar & Grill
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- References: <01062012.n9s1n1@inter.interzone.ch> <1993Jan10.023909.3248@nntp.hut.fi> <mancini-100193160248@usx221.fysik.uu.se>
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- mancini@fysik.uu.se (Derrick C. Mancini) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Geez.... I took a look at the code with ResEdit, and it's just loading
- the icons, then drawing a bit of the line, then loading another icon,
- etc... until it's all done. Otherwise you'd just be sitting there
- getting impatient (e.g., "Damn it....why is it taking so long! I want to
- play NOW!") *grin*...
-
- As for seeking all over the disk, this could be due to fragmentation of
- files on your hard drive... try running a hard drive optimizer over it
- (backup first!) and see if that doesn't stop some of the seeking...
-
- >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
- >---------------------------------------------
- >"Are we having fun yet?" - Zippy
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