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From: shaun@iris.mincom.oz.au (Shaun Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Anyone else having trouble loading "The Immortal"?
Keywords: War is Hell, Man...
Message-ID: <943@iris.mincom.oz.au>
Date: 14 Mar 91 03:05:09 GMT
References: <4br6ab600WB_M1fWAu@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: shaun@mincom.oz.au (Shaun Hayes)
Organization: Mincom, Brisbane, Australia
Lines: 29

In article <4br6ab600WB_M1fWAu@andrew.cmu.edu> ia0i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Indu Tara Agarwal) writes:
 >In response to your message;
 >
 >YUP!  Ahuh, Ahuh!  I purchased the game from an Electronics Boutique over
 >Christmas, brought it home, and it did the exact thing you describe!  I
 >assumed that the disk surface had been mangled or that the loader program
 >was hosed and returned it.  Fortunately, I was able to return the game.
 >Unfortunately, they never got another copy in.
 >
 >Just how widespread is this problem?  --let me know what kind of response
 >                                        you get. I'm afraid to buy another
 >                                        copy before I know....

Well... I'm not quite sure at what point the grinding you both refer to
is occurring, but this game _does_ take a very long time to load (usually
about 3 to 5 minutes - I go off to prepare myself :-), and during that
time grinds and crunches the disk something chronic.

I also have a problem that if I start the game straight on level 2 (with
a password), I'll inevitably get a guru - a real bummer (the wait is
almost as bad as restarting Shadow of the Beast :-/).  The same also
_sometimes_ happens for starting at level 3.  Anyone else?


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