Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!jcoper From: jcoper@ccu.umanitoba.ca (D. Joseph Creighton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games Subject: Re: Loading up Falcon Message-ID: <1991Jan28.140922.8882@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Date: 28 Jan 91 14:09:22 GMT References: <1991Jan28.043519.1656@ecst.csuchico.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Lines: 22 In article <1991Jan28.043519.1656@ecst.csuchico.edu> lorner@ecst.csuchico.edu (Lance Orner) writes: >At one point, I had a Mac Plus, and one of the first games I bought was >Falcon, and I have had a grand old time with it. But since then, I've >gotten a hard drive for that Plus, and have now transferred to a IIcx, and >Falcon has been sitting in my disk box for over a year now. > >The problem being that I can't get the program to work off a hard disk. >Instead, I've got to go and turn off my memory cache, and reboot of it's >floppies, and since I have only one floppy drive, I've got to do a little >bit of disk flipping. > >Now, I can't see Spectrum Holobyte createing a program that is such a pain >to load up, and I've got to be missing something here. Any ideas? Well, if you are a registered user of Falcon (ie: you actually went and bought the game), there are instructions in the manual on how to install Falcon on a hard drive, which I know work fine. --- +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | D. Joseph Creighton | Department of Computer Services | | | University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+