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From: com259h@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: F16 Combat Pilot: help wanted
Message-ID: <1991Jan11.103132.86113@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 10 Jan 91 23:31:32 GMT
References: <37765@cup.portal.com>
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In article <37765@cup.portal.com>, dan-hankins@cup.portal.com (Daniel B Hankins) writes:
> I own F16 Combat Pilot.  I have three problems with it, for which I am looking
> for solutions.  See the bottom of this post for information on what I will
> trade for solutions to these problems:
>
> F16 CP would be my favorite combat flight simulator
> (superior to Falcon), if it were not for the following three things that have
> nothing to do with the game, but which make it practically unusable:

[flames abbreviated. custom disk format. cant make backup to play from]

        Yeah, I hate this too.

[copy protection is word from manual type]

>   A. Paragraphs are split across pages, so it's hard to tell which paragraph
>   the program is asking for.

        I just count paragraphs from the top of the page, even if one starts
on the previous page. I've never had a problem doing this.

[more stuff about what is a paragraph, and what is a word]

        True.

> Thank God it only asks once per boot.  I've taken to numbering paragraphs

        YOW! Once per boot?  Mine makes me find a key word EVERY time I take
off. Sometimes I take off 8 or 9 times in a single session. 8(

> 3. Each time it saves status to the save disk, it corrupts that disk a little
> more.  After 10-15 writes to the save disk, the program can't read its own
> save disk any more.

        I've never had this problem. I'm on my 5'th campaign and still using
the same save disk that I started with. I've probably saved to it over 40
times by now. Do you clean the heads on the drive often?

[some questions about where to get a de-protected copy from]

        I can't answer any of your questions.


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