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From: billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Emerald Mines
Message-ID: <1990Oct31.235930.7746@agora.uucp>
Date: 31 Oct 90 23:59:30 GMT
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In article <1990Oct23.192706.20046@world.std.com> levin@world.std.com (Levin F Magruder) writes:
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:I was surprised to see anyone talking about this game at this point,
:but it reminded me of some problems I had with it.  1.  Sometimes I
:load it and it remembers what level I got to, other times it sets
:me back to my session before last (but then I reboot, and it remembers
:how far I got).  Did the programmers write their own, buggy, filing
:system?  A couple people here talked about their disks going bad.  Also,
:it seems to me that sometimes it gives you 50 seconds for a level, and
:other times 80, for the same level, with no apparent pattern.  Am I
:missing something?

	It keeps track of how far you've gotten by a file on the disk. If
you boot up with the disk write protected, you'll have that symptom. As
long as you leave the disk write enabled, it should remember where you left
off. It's actually a good reason to make a backup copy and play off the
backup, or to use Emerald Mine II, which stores that stuff on a data disk.
	If the copy protection check fails on the initial load, you'll be
able to play the levels, but with a fairly major time penalty. Maybe that's
what you were seeing in terms of the different times/level. I seem to remember
that there was differing times alloted depending on how many levels you
had gotten through, but I'm not sure about that one. (ie., you'd have less
time alloted for level 8 if you've already finished level 35 than if you'd
just started on level 8...)

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