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From: boyd@mailer.cc.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: I ***STILL*** want GAUNTLET II
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.040044.1457@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 91 04:00:44 GMT
References: <9102130322.AA17508@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <MbiOELi00VpbA800Vc@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Organization: Florida State University Computer Science Department
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In article <MbiOELi00VpbA800Vc@andrew.cmu.edu>, dz0x+@andrew.cmu.edu (David Joseph Zieger) writes:
>   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.
>

I tried Gauntlet II on my machine, and it would not work correctly unless 
I disconnected my printer cable from the back of the machine (it would NOT
work if I disconnected it from the printer!?!).  The 4-player adaptor uses
the printer port, and the game does not seem to like anything residing 
else residing there.  My problem was that both a 3rd and 4th player would 
be created whenever I played, and one of them would try to walk to the 
left continuously.  

I would like to note that the game is excellent, and I have played it as 
one of four (real) players.  It's a blast!  I just don't want to disconnect
my printer cable whenever I want to play . . . .

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