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From: dz0x+@andrew.cmu.edu (David Joseph Zieger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: I ***STILL*** want GAUNTLET II
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Date: 13 Feb 91 20:39:51 GMT
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>I want GAUNTLET II, and I don't know how to get it.
>Does anyone have one that they will part with? or
>Does anyone know a store that has one left?

>AAron@sun.soe.clarkson.edu

   This game was released in one of those multi-game packs.  I forget
the name of the package and of the company selling it, but these things
are frequently in the mail-order lists.  I can check the box and post
the important info later.
   For now, I can tell you that it's in the set containing Gauntlet II,
Outrun, 1943 (or is it 1942?) and Street Fighter (or something like
that.)
   I should tell you that this game has a curious flaw, or at least, my
version did.  The game comes on two disks.  You boot the game with the
first one, but switch them right before the game starts.  The trouble
is, it doesn't switch off the drive while asking, so you have to change
disks with the drive running.  This, however, is not the problem, but it
may be related.  My version of the game insists on creating a character
in the fourth player slot, which can't be controlled without some sort
of adapter.  So, you have your character on the screen with this other
character that doesn't move and shoots continuously.  You can push him
around the screen, and hope the bad guys get in his line of fire.  If he
dies, he comes right back.  
   The game didn't always do this, though.  It didn't do it the first
time I used the game, and it didn't do it for a little while after I got
the drive re-aligned.  I have no idea what the technical explanation is
for this problem  - I don't really think it's a software problem.  If
anyone out there has any ideas on what the problem is, and how to
correct it, please let me know.

                                                              

                               ---- Dave Z.   { dz0x+@andrew.cmu.edu }
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