Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!dxb132 From: DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Can PowerMonger actually be won? Message-ID: <91033.000610DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu> Date: 2 Feb 91 05:06:10 GMT References: <1991Feb1.222857.9138@portia.Stanford.EDU> Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.games Organization: Penn State University Lines: 24 In article <1991Feb1.222857.9138@portia.Stanford.EDU>, bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) says: >I haven't had a guru (yet), but if your drive is the least bit mis-aligned, >there's no way in hell you're going to save your game. I can save on my 1000 >and my 500 at school, but not on my 500 at home, that has a drive that works >with every disk I own except PowerMonger. this problem does not sound like drive mis-alignment; it sounds like a buggy save routine, most likely dependent on a certain drive speed. For example, they might not be writing a full track. >>Has anybody else gotten this far who has had similar experiences, or is my >>game buggy, or what?? >Yup. MASSIVELY buggy. What pisses me off is that they promised that this >game is copyable. I've thrown every damn German, English, and American >nibbler I own at the thing, and I'm still forced to run off the original. That's strange. My version (yes, legit) uses the standard trackdisk format. Guess the read routine is flakey too. :-( -- Dan Babcock