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From: klt@utgard.uucp (Ken Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Deluxe (music) and DJ printing
Summary: DMCS on a Hard Disk
Keywords: DMCS, DeskJet, DJ, printer
Message-ID: <1990Aug14.172537.16943@utgard.uucp>
Date: 15 Aug 90 01:44:15 GMT
References: <1990Aug13.190229.20209@uncecs.edu> <58904@bbn.BBN.COM>
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ReplyTo: klt@utgard.UUCP (Ken Thompson)

In article <58904@bbn.BBN.COM> cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) writes:
>Speaking of DMCS, had anyone had any luck running it off of a hard
>disk?  I have the 'unprotected' version, and I tried making a directory
>on my hard disk and copying the whole mess in, and while it seems to
>mostly work, it regularly crashes my system [2000 w/ 2megs and GVP
>HD].
>  /Bernie\

I had a similar problem with the same version of DMCS. I wrote to EA about it,
and they said that under 1.3 DMCS is "flakey". They did tell me to make sure
I had the fonts from the original disk installed on my hard disk. I didn't,
but when I installed them the problems did not go away.

The worst problem I had was that no sound would come out, which I view as a
detriment to a good music program. 8) EA told me (as has been mentioned in
this group before) that they have no plans to upgrade DMCS, the unprotected
version is the latest.

It does seem to work ok if I boot from the original disk (which has 1.2 on it)
and change the music and instruments directories to those on my hard drive,
but booting every time I want to play music is a pain.

klt (Ken Thompson)
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