Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!herald.usask.ca!alberta!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!samsung!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!fub!tmpmbx!lime!techno From: techno@lime.in-berlin.de (Techno) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: I ***STILL*** want GAUNTLET II Message-ID: Date: 15 Feb 91 01:23:32 GMT References: <9102130322.AA17508@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> Organization: LIME Systems featuring a TOGA Party Lines: 36 dz0x+@andrew.cmu.edu (David Joseph Zieger) writes: [stuff on how to get it deleted] > 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. The disk drive is not the problem. It happens when there is anything connected to your parallel printer port, even if the connected device is powered off. Thus, the solution is simple: just remove anything from the port and the game works fine. Hope this helps, Techno -- | techno@zelator.in-berlin.de ||| Please do not e-mail from outside Germany ! | | techno@lime.in-berlin.de / | \ Hardcore ST user ! ====================== | | Nothing that's real is ever for free, you just have to pay for it sometime. | | (Al Stewart) |