Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!latour!atronx!sarah!egp
From: egp@sarah.amiga.OCUnix.On.Ca (Eric Plante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: DMII--the hand is faster than the eye.
Message-ID: <1756.663189525@sarah.amiga.OCUnix.On.Ca>
Date: Sun Jan 06 13:18:45 1991
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.games
In-Reply-To: cs170703644@vger.nsu.edu

In a message posted on 1 Jan 91 23:53:05 GMT,
cs170703644@vger.nsu.edu wrote:
c>This is directed toward all those folks who have played DMII.  
c> 
c>Has anyone out there had a problem with the pointer disappearing in the
c>middle of play?  Three times now, the arrow/hand disappeared completely.
c>The machine didn't crash.  I could keep on playing if I could 
c>guesstimate where the pointer was.....butit was so tough to indulge in
c>combat that I ended up rebooting each time.

This has happened to me as well, by hitting the wall with the hand
repeatedly (out of frustration)...

c>During one suc h session, one of my champions also disappeared.  That is,
c>his icon disappeared from the top right corner of my screen, but his 

This has also happened to me, while my hand was out to lunch. I think it
did this because I had clicked on that character icon without knowing it,
because I tried re-clicking on the empty space (by guesswork, having no
pointer) and it came back. 
    My friend is also having problems with DMII. He has 3 megs of memory
total. I have two megs and wierd things tend to happen. Has anyone with 1
meg had problems? DMII might not like expanded memory beyond the req'd
1meg.

c>| werjun@large              |  It is better to be well for a day    |
c>+ cs170703644@vger.nsu.edu  +         than sick for a year.         +     

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