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From: eric@oakhill.UUCP (Eric Quintana)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: KILLING GAME SHOW LEVEL 3 HELP NEEDED!
Message-ID: <4269@rorschach.oakhill.UUCP>
Date: 29 Nov 90 23:53:04 GMT
References: <1990Nov28.073506.29766@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: eric@rorschach.UUCP (Eric Quintana)
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas
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In article <1990Nov28.073506.29766@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gmm34343@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Geoffrey M. Miller) writes:
>Killing Game Show is one of the most playable and addictive games I've
>ever seen for the Amiga.... until LEVEL 3 Section 2.  I can get to this
>point quite easily now, but I can never finish the level.  After I collect
>all the diamonds and unlock the final door, the chain comes down only
>halfway and I am unable to jump onto it to complete the level.  I have
>had this game well over a month and I am completely stuck!!! Can someone
>who knows of this problem please please please offer me a solution?

Just keep trying.  The chain is JUST BARELY low enough to reach.
To do so, stand to the right of the chain very close to the edge of
the cliff.  Your feet may need to extend slightly over the edge.
Now jump up to the left.  You should auto-grab the chain.

Don't feel bad.  It took me a while before I was convinced that that
was what I was supposed to do.  I thought that maybe pushing a button
might lower the chain more.  But NO.

BTW, I play this game on my A3000.  It runs just fine, once I get it to
load.  This can require several trys.  I try different kickstarts,
different loading techniques, but I have not found a way to CONSISTANTLY
load the game on first try.  Now here's the odd part: once I do get
the game to load, it will load without a hitch.  Even if I turn the
computer off and on again; the game will load without a problem!
Every time!  (Until I do something else, that is.)

This struck me as very odd.  I can only guess what has happened is
the copy protection works such that an A3000 can only read the disk
if the drive head was left in a position it likes??  Or perhaps the
protection scheme does not like my drive alignment such that it
will only load sporadically??

Anyone else got any ideas?


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