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From: fsdmb3@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (BRAUN DAVID M)
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Subject: Re: keyboards,gulam,revolver
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Date: 4 Aug 90 08:51:06 GMT
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In article <412@trwrb.dsd.trw.com>, root@trwrb.dsd.trw.com (root) writes...
> 
>Can I use Revolver to save a game to my harddrive and continue the game
>later?  Is Switchback the only product for the ST that will do this?
> 
>Thank You,
>Gregory Gibson

Yes!  only if the game knows your hard drive is there, and you can boot up
the game with the revolver software installed, AND the game doesn't disable
the Shift-Alt keys, or use them for something else.
  Omni-res uses a Shift-Alt-Help combination to change screen resolutions
and thus you can not change resolutions because Revolver steals teh interrupt
before the Help key is pressed.  But it works.
  the only thing I have found that doesn't work with Revolver OUTRIGHT is
WordUp 3.0!!  It must be something with how WordUp uses high end memory
to store fonts.  It must go over revolvers head and use the memory even
though it is in another memory partition, thus crashing before it even 
lets you load a document.  Very depressing consitering how long it takes to
load WordUp, it would be nice to have it _right_There_ via Revolver.. 
But alas, no.     I know nothing of how switchback works. 
  Hope this is helpfull.

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David M. Braun				     		    FSDMB3@ALASKA.BITNET
Samurai and Lizards, Reptiles and Samurai.     	     fsdmb3@acad3.fai.alaska.edu
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