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From: bneal@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Brian Neal)
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Subject: Re: Anyone else having trouble loading "The Immortal"?
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Date: 14 Mar 91 17:25:44 GMT
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From article <24460@frog.UUCP>, by jcc@frog.UUCP (Jim Chagnon):
> In article <4br6ab600WB_M1fWAu@andrew.cmu.edu> ia0i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Indu Tara Agarwal) asks about Immortal loading probs:
> 
> 
>>Just how widespread is this problem?  --let me know what kind of response
> 
>   Apparently very wide spread. A friend of mine had this same problem with
>  his 500, returned the game for another copy, same problem. We tried it on
>  my 1000, same problem. He returned it for something else. Don't buy it.
> 
> jcc

	I thought I had a bum copy, all it did was grind df0:, then
grind df1:, repeatedly.  However, it does load, but it takes a _VERY_
long time, apparently because it pauses to spin the (empty!) external drive.
Whoever wrote the loading scheme must be a complete moron.

	
--
         Brian Neal           ||  ...the bible teaches us that elephants
  bneal@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu  ||  _cannot_ talk (Luke 15:23).
   neal@herky.cs.uiowa.edu    ||      Attributed to Rev. Donald Wildmon
     **  A M I G A  **        ||      in MAD Magazine, April 1991 p. 48