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From: twells@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Tabor Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: LemmingsDemo.zom
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Date: 1 Mar 91 21:01:20 GMT
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colas@lemur.inria.fr (Colas Nahaboo) writes:

>In article <21446@know.pws.bull.com>, C503719@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU (Baird
>McIntosh) writes:
>> My conclusion:  this demo has some ULTRA-SENSITIVE disk loading routines.
>> My question:  am I right, and is the release version as sensitive?

>more probably, the disk routines are checksum-less, as most custom game routines
>are. So try DiskSalve the disk and run on a copy...

>Also: this disk may have the "ntsc" program in its startup-sequence to have
>full
>scale display on PAL amigas. I do not knoe if it is your problem, but if it is
>there, try to comment it in the startup-sequnce

Well because the demo is all custom os, there's no way hes going to be able to
edit the startup-seq. Also if he trys to run DiskSalv, he'll just kill program
because DiskSalv looks for standard AmigaDOS disks, not the custom Psygnosis
disks.
	Tabor Wells
	twells@eecs.cs.pdx.edu

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