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From: daroloson@watmath.UUCP (Dani A. Roloson)
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Subject: Help needed with "Fractalus" load error
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Date: Wed, 22-May-85 21:35:48 EDT
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[ ... but I don't want to buy a 1050. ]

The Atari store here in Kitchener-Waterloo recently received
Epyx's "Rescue from Fractalus" by Lucasfilm Games.
Unfortunately, it appears to load correctly only on Atari-brand 
disk drives.  When I attempted to load it on my Indus or
the Trak's in the store, after going past sector 07 for the
second time, a multicolored screen appeared with LOAD ERROR
in large letters.

Does any one have any suggestions?

I did not have any such problems with "Ballblazer" and 
"Fractalus" worked on the 130XE with the 1050 drive so
I'm pretty sure it is not a computer compatibility problem.
It did not work with with my Indus and 800XL with
basic in/out and/or translator loaded/not loaded 
or the store's Trak's and old 800's ( we tried 4 disks that
came in two different shipments to the store ).

It was suggested to me that they placed extra protection
because of the large number of pirated copies but I find
it a bit unreasonable to make "Fractalus" work only on
Atari-brand drives ( checks disk speed??? ).

If anyone could make a LOCAL call to Epyx (Lucasfilm??) to
check whether this LOAD ERROR was intended ( maybe the
distributer up here just got a bad batch )
or if anyone knows of a disk-drive translator that makes
an Indus behave like a 1050 ( make it munch disks :-),
I would greatly appreciate it.

Someone mentioned that they had a copy that did work on their drive
but that they also got it before Epyx released it.  I do NOT want
to get my copy like this since I feel "Ballblazer" ( and possibly
"Fractalus", I didn't get accustomed to playing it in the store)
is one of the best games for the Atari and I want to
make sure that Epyx/Lucasfilm are encouraged to produce similar
high quality games.

BTW, Is Lucasfilm going to produce more Atari games for the XL/XE/ST
or was the agreement with Atari terminated instead of transferred to Epyx??

   Thanks,
      Dani A. Roloson
      Math Faculty Computing Facility, University of Waterloo, Canada

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